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Summary: Works like a KVM should. No major problems.
Review: After a bad experience with a Belkin SOHO KVM, I ended up getting an IOGear MiniView III 2-Port KVMP. After 3 or 4 hours of use I'm 95% satisfied. The display is as clear as I expect it to be (which is to say, perfectly). There's no delay when typing or moving the mouse, even when typing fast. Occasionally, I will get a stuck key for a fraction of a second, but it's very rare. USB sharing seemed to work perfectly. I was also pleasantly surprised to see that F12 worked as [Eject] on the Mac side. There's also less than a second of delay when switching between machines.The only real problem I have is that I switched the KVM's on screen display activation key to [scroll lock] [scroll lock] from [ctrl] [ctrl], but Apple keyboards apparently don't handle F14 exactly the same as Scroll Lock, so now I can't access the On Screen Display. Pisser, but not a huge deal since I can still switch machines with the [ctrl] [shift] [option] [#] command. A minor complaint is that I can't disable the beep that happens when machines are switched. Definitely a nice KVM.
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Summary: Not the best for power users
Review: I bought one of these recently but was sadly disappointed. It is possible it is defective and I'll try returning it for a replacement. Here is what didn't work: Booting a system gave the old "no keyboard found press F1" oxymoronic error message. Plugging the keyboard directly into the USB port of the computer didn't not have this problem. The manual says to press 1+2 to "reset" the unit which I tried, but it seemed to go into auto-seek instead. The manual and website were no help, of course. If it turns out to be defective when I return it, I'll update the review (upward I hope!).
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Summary: Doesn't Work at All
Review: I bought one of these recently but was sadly disappointed. It is possible it is defective and I'll try returning it for a replacement. Here is what didn't work: Booting a system gave the old "no keyboard found press F1" oxymoronic error message. Plugging the keyboard directly into the USB port of the computer didn't not have this problem. The manual says to press 1+2 to "reset" the unit which I tried, but it seemed to go into auto-seek instead. The manual and website were no help, of course. If it turns out to be defective when I return it, I'll update the review (upward I hope!).
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Summary: Stable Switch
Review: I don't use wireless mouse nor keyboard at home, so no complain there. It works perfectly fine with the USB keyboard and USB mouse. I have the switch connected to my laptop and my desktop machine and I switch between the two machines using Ctrl + Ctrl hot key. It's really nice being able to see where I was and where I'm going. And it shows which machine the shared USB is connected to. As another person indicated in the reivew of this product, it doesn't have a feature to turn off the beep when switching the machines. It gets kinda annoying at times, but it really isn't a big deal. I have experienced no mouse skipping after switching, which I used to come across a lot with PS2 type of switches before. It's a really good switch if you have two machines you would like to use and all your peripherals are USB.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: I have a MS Office Keyboard (not wireless), and a MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer. Neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked acceptably with the KVMP switch. The keyboard has several special keys for copy/paste, along with several buttons for launching applications. None of these worked. Neither of my systems (1 Win2K Pro, 1 WinXP Pro) would recognize the keyboard as anything other than a generic keyboard. Both systems work perfectly with the keyboard with a direct connection. The mouse suffered from a similar fate, except that every time you started moving the mouse from a rest, the mouse right-click behavior would execute. Plus, right clicks would also randomly occur. Email to IOGEAR support wasn't much help. Their response was: 'At this time, wireless keyboards and mice are not supported for our products.' This, of course, failed to address the issue with my wired keyboard. I would replace my mouse with a wired one if I could get the keyboard working. Too bad. This product probably works OK for generic, wired, input devices. Bottom line: This dog don't fetch.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: I have a MS Office Keyboard (not wireless), and a MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer. Neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked acceptably with the KVMP switch. The keyboard has several special keys for copy/paste, along with several buttons for launching applications. None of these worked. Neither of my systems (1 Win2K Pro, 1 WinXP Pro) would recognize the keyboard as anything other than a generic keyboard. Both systems work perfectly with the keyboard with a direct connection. The mouse suffered from a similar fate, except that every time you started moving the mouse from a rest, the mouse right-click behavior would execute. Plus, right clicks would also randomly occur. Email to IOGEAR support wasn't much help. Their response was: 'At this time, wireless keyboards and mice are not supported for our products.' This, of course, failed to address the issue with my wired keyboard. I would replace my mouse with a wired one if I could get the keyboard working. Too bad. This product probably works OK for generic, wired, input devices. Bottom line: This dog don't fetch.
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Summary: Not the best for power users
Review: On the very positive side, the switch was really simple to set up. However, it doesn't work correctly with Win XP Tablet edition (mouse will go crazy and, if you have a monitor on the tablet that can switch from portrait to lanscape, it will always startup sideways regardless of your settings). Also, doesn't support the Apple key on a Mac -- but does work fine with Mac otherwise. Can be annoying for power keyboard users because the hot keys for switching are automatically on and anytime you press Ctrl twice it prompts you to switch (but, other than that, it's really great on Win XP Professional or Win 2000 machines). I'm still using the switch, though, for lack of better options ... it's better than being without one. And better than the competitors I've seen.
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