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Is this not quite niche? What about the environmental impact of adding extra ports that no one is going to use?

• _ph_ 5y ago
  I would need to share the screen too between my laptop and my desktop mac, so, no. Homeoffice is a thing these days and that means, you need to connect a screen to your work computer. I would rather not have the additional USB ports on the screen (though they are nice) than not having a second input. And giving that the screen has an A13 on its own, it would have the ability for nice handling multiple inputs, e.g. PIP or nice switching of keyboard/mouse attached.
• techpression 5y ago
  As already mentioned, people working from home would benefit from this a lot, and KVM monitors for two machines have been a thing for at least a decade (Dell, Eizo, BenQ amongst others have been offering them so there’s clearly a market). And even if it wasn’t very used, the environmental cost of just one extra monitor would be many many unused ports.
• thirdsun 5y ago
  > Is this not quite niche? Having more than one device connected to a display? I think that's rather common and I'd expect multiple inputs on a display from any price range.
  • bradlys 5y ago
    Honestly - I think it's pretty niche. I get that on HN - everyone will chime in and say it's frequent but I've seen thousands of monitors in my day... and all of them were connected to just one device and never more than one device. Yes - sometimes things get connected to multiple devices but again - it's a niche.