I’m a two computer guy. I like to have a slave machine around for offloading non-critical, but important, work tasks like listening to music, web-browsing, chatting, etc. Up until the end of December, my slave machine was a PC with the master being a MacBook. No longer. I felt a Mac was better suited to these tasks, and I grew tired of switching between the Windows XP and OS X UI’s whenever I moused over to my attached PC. Oh, and my PC was so infected with something that half the web sites I hit up wouldn’t even load. A Mac Mini was purchased and happiness is soon to follow.
I had been using Synergy (with snazzy GUI’s like SynergyKM) to share a single keyboard and trackball between systems. This worked well for a time. Booting up a new OS X Leopard machine found me spending a lot of time trying to get these Macs talking to each other. Odd that it’d be so difficult for me to get these like systems on speaking terms.
Enter Teleport, a mouse-keyboard sharing app designed by Macs and for Macs. Brainless configuration and I’m up and running. Synergy is a little more seamless once it’s working, but Teleport is a good option that has saved me a few hours. The only thing I notice is that mousing isn’t quite as precise on the remote machine as I’d like it to be. There’s a near-imperceptible lag.
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Comments (3)
Once you go Mac you’ll never go back! WELCOME!
The whole story is that most people my age or older went Mac, left Mac, and are starting to go back. At least that’s what Paul Graham says.
I think you’d be surprised how different my usage of a Mac is than yours, Jenny. It’s pretty amazing, IMHO, that the Mac can handle such different users equally well.
Nice! I’m a fan of my Mac Mini. It certainly serves the purpose as a media machine, and being able to do some work on it is a nice bonus…