Quote Originally Posted by ElectronDF View Post
5 computers, 3 PCs 2 Macs. I would love a key broadcaster that works cross-platform, but no one has stepped up to the plate. So I use HotKeyNet and VNC to talk to the Macs.

If there was a cross-platform key broadcaster (don't need windows resizing, don't need window swaping, don't need anything but keys passed and round-robin-ness), I would use 4 Macs and 1 PC. I still need a PC for games that don't get ported to the Mac and so I can update at my own speed (SSD, video card, processor, etc) so my main computer is pretty fancy without bying a new computer all together.
Sounds similar to my setup.

I use:

1 Mac Pro (8 core)
1 27" i7 Imac
3 Windoze boxes

I broadcast keys with a hardware key broadcaster. Mac OSX is unusual in that the USB keystrokes using my broadcaster don't always succesfully get to the iMac unless the iMac has the "focus". I.e. I have a KVM switch from ATEN that has a broadcast capability, but I believe that the keystrokes are broadcast first to the computer that is assigned as the "primary" computer and then routed to the other attached computers. If the iMac is NOT the focus, then it misses about 1/3 of the keystrokes. When I run the iMac in Windows (Bootcamp), I don't experience this issue.

I am interested in trying the broadcasters from Vetra, but I have a hard time plunking down the money for a hobby that I keep thinking I am going to quit soon!