Does anyone know of it's possible to KVM to an all-in-one desktop? In case anyone is not familiar with them, a desktop all-in-one is a desktop PC that has the monitor, the CPU, and the DVD or Blu Ray drive all built into the same unit. Nowadays they're usually also touch screen. Here's an example:
I used to be skeptical of these kind of desktops, and still am to an extent, but they've grown on me some. Their big disadvantage is they're not as upgradable as a traditional desktop, and if something like the DVD/Blu Ray drive breaks it's expensive to fix. However, their big advantage is you don't have to have a CPU sitting under your desk, and moving one to another room is a lot simpler.
I've thought of getting a desktop again. It would be nice to have a nice, big screen. I often simultaneously write a document in two languages – English and French or English and German. It would be really nice to have a 23-inch monitor so that I could, with LO Writer, have the French one on the left and the English one on the right with plenty of room to see it all. On my 15.4 inch laptop, I can do that, but it's a bit of a squeeze. If I make the text too small, it's hard to read.
I used to use two desktop computers simultaneously. I had Ubuntu 8.04 on one PC and Windows XP on the other – in separate CPUs. I used one set of keyboard, monitor, and mouse; and I KVMed everything together. This setup had a big advantage over what I do now, which is to run Windows 7 under Kubuntu via VirtualBox. By KVMing two different PCs together, each operating system was the only OS on that PC and was therefore unaffected by the needs of the other OS. I could run a resource-hungry application, KVM to the other PC, and keep working with no effect on that OS's performance whatsoever. To share data from one PC to the other, I just used thumb drives. Today, however, I would use a networked external hard drive.
The one disadvantage was that I had two CPUs under my desk pigging up room. That's why I wonder if it's possible to KVM an all-in-one desktop with a traditional one.
I used to be skeptical of these kind of desktops, and still am to an extent, but they've grown on me some. Their big disadvantage is they're not as upgradable as a traditional desktop, and if something like the DVD/Blu Ray drive breaks it's expensive to fix. However, their big advantage is you don't have to have a CPU sitting under your desk, and moving one to another room is a lot simpler.
I've thought of getting a desktop again. It would be nice to have a nice, big screen. I often simultaneously write a document in two languages – English and French or English and German. It would be really nice to have a 23-inch monitor so that I could, with LO Writer, have the French one on the left and the English one on the right with plenty of room to see it all. On my 15.4 inch laptop, I can do that, but it's a bit of a squeeze. If I make the text too small, it's hard to read.
I used to use two desktop computers simultaneously. I had Ubuntu 8.04 on one PC and Windows XP on the other – in separate CPUs. I used one set of keyboard, monitor, and mouse; and I KVMed everything together. This setup had a big advantage over what I do now, which is to run Windows 7 under Kubuntu via VirtualBox. By KVMing two different PCs together, each operating system was the only OS on that PC and was therefore unaffected by the needs of the other OS. I could run a resource-hungry application, KVM to the other PC, and keep working with no effect on that OS's performance whatsoever. To share data from one PC to the other, I just used thumb drives. Today, however, I would use a networked external hard drive.
The one disadvantage was that I had two CPUs under my desk pigging up room. That's why I wonder if it's possible to KVM an all-in-one desktop with a traditional one.
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