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Grifter
Jul 24, 2003

I do this technique called a suplex. You probably haven't heard of it, it's pretty obscure.
I have recently become a full time work from home person. I have a work laptop and a personal desktop. Right now I only have one monitor. I want to upgrade to two, but preferably I would like it for both. Is it possible to have some sort of a setup where I can have flip a switch and have the monitors flip over from the laptop to the desktop and vice versa? I'm not even sure what the names of the equipment are to make that happen.

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Grifter
Jul 24, 2003

I do this technique called a suplex. You probably haven't heard of it, it's pretty obscure.
Thanks for the KVM input, everybody. That does look exactly like what I want.

Winged Orpheus posted:

I believe the name of the item you are looking for is a KVM switch. Just make sure whatever you're getting supports multiple monitors, and whatever peripherals you'd like to swap between them as well
I looked it up. I have a Surface 3 Laptop, it does USB-C for outputs. The laptop does support two monitors. My desktop is DVI. I am looking at this thing, now I just need to figure out which configuration will give me the right ports/cables to get me working.

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