How-to: Dual Mac-PC Setup with Synergy

By C.K. Sample, III

Lifehacker has a neat little walk-through showing one how to turn a dual monitor PC into a Dual Mac-PC System. Really, all this is doing is setting a Mac and a PC side by side, installing Synergy on both systems, using the new GUI for Synergy to make things a bit easier, and then sync up the two computers over the network so that you can control both with the same mouse and keyboard.

Why do this? The Windows box will run much faster than Virtual PC and it'll be a great testing environment for any web developers out there. Maybe I'll grab a Mac mini and one of these Mac mini clones, stack them, and try this set up. 

Nice. Check it out. 

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