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I forgot who it was, but in the screenshots post, someone had one machine for the main and a quad-core machine for the alts, so each one would get one core and a gig of RAM to itself. That seemed like a really ideal setup; I kind of wish I had done it that way. Running the alts in splitscreen is really nice, and it's MUCH easier to do when they're all on one machine instead of 4.
I'm not really that familiar with hardware boxing, but I love having everything on one machine.
If one guy dies, just click the next window and you're good to go. Seems like it would be harder to switch on separate machines, but I've never tried so I could be wrong.
Yeah, that is definitely an advantage of one machine. I'm working on a way to do it with multiple, but it's tricky to do.
Cheap hardware.
regular keyboard for main machine
wireless keyboard controlling 4 machines
1 mouse for each of the 5 machines
I'm using boxes made from old parts for 3 machines(quite literally junk), my decent machine that I use for every day use and a laptop. I've done 2 or 3 characters at a time in the past usually just for leveling or doing something I couldn't do solo. Having had all the machines sitting around it took me very little to setup a 5 box system. I went and bought a cheap wireless keyboard and ordered 3 replacement usb adapters. This works extremely well, there are occasional missed keystrokes but the few hundred bucks I'm saving makes it worth occasionally having to tap the key twice. I do that regularly when I'm not hitting a key binded to a cast sequence.
My reason for using a pure hardware solution is the same as previous posters. I'm not willing to risk losing the time and effort put into leveling and gearing my characters when blizzard decides one of these 3rd party programs needs to be added to wardens watch list.