Hello! I’m in a situation, where I have a work laptop and a personal computer, the latter is used mostly for gaming. In order to switch between them I have to plug all the peripherals from one machine to the other, to help with that I bought a dock, to which I can connect everything, and connect the dock via one USB-C cable. The trouble begins with the monitors, as my laptop supports thunderbolt, but my motherboard doesn’t, so it’s a bit of a chore to switch them.
To alleviate the issue I’m considering changing my motherboard to one that has thunderbolt 4 support, as I have one 4K monitor and one full HD, and I’ve read it should support them fine on one cable. Is this a good solution? I’m thinking I might run into some issues with monitors not being connected directly to my GPU, latency or otherwise.
I beseech thee for help o masters of the PC.
You could look at KVM switches which allow you to switch input with the touch of a button, although they could be pricey.
Second idea that comes to mind is installing something like parsec on your laptop and just remoting into it from your desktop.
Remoting is certainly something I haven’t thought of, latency shouldn’t be a problem, only I’d need both machines to be on. Thanks for suggesting, it would save some money.
I literally just rdp into my work laptop daily. Everything works, even Teams video calls.
Nowadays you can get really responsive remote desktop software with parsec or sunshine/moonshine.
I have a couple of KVM switches from Amazon that were only ~$20. They fit my needs perfectly.