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mgibbonsjr

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Dec 1, 2013
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Hello,

Just purchased the newest version of a Macbook Air and now looking for some tips on how to dock it. (If this post is in the wrong location, I apologize.)

I want to be able to do a few things:

1. Dock the MacBook so I can use my keyboard mouse and video. I don't want to have to unplug these things from my pc every time I want to connect them to the laptop. Ideally some kind of KVM switch should take care of this, but not sure which one to use.

2. I also want to be able to have two External Displays for the macbook. I have two 28" HDMI monitors that are currently connected to my PC. I know the macbook air only has one thunderbolt port. I have seen thunderbolt to HDMI adapters, but I think I would need some type of thunderbolt to dual HDMI splitter to accomplish what I am looking for.


If both of these could be accomplished with one KVM switch and one adapter, that would be awesome. This is my first mac though and I was hoping someone experienced has already done this. I tried to do some research on this site and saw this article which I thought was close to what I want, but read comments underneath of people who were destroying it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/09/zendock-tries-to-solve-age-old-macbook-docking-problem/
 
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