Review on StarTech.com 2 Port Dual Monitor DisplayPort KVM Switch with USB 2.0 Hub, Audio, and Microphone - Black (SV231DPDDUA) by Sandro Pierce

I've been testing this product for a few hours - and it works at a very basic level with the following major limitations. Issues: - Does not support static connection/EDID on an idle computer. What does that mean? This means that the slave computer that you are not interacting with will receive a DisplayPort "Hot Unplug" event and the Windows/display driver will remove the monitor(s) from the system. The side effect of this is that the next time you switch to this PC, your desktop will now be encrypted. In my case, everything on the right monitor is moved to the left and resized. "Fixing" my desktop every time I switched it turned out to be more of a hassle than just switching inputs on my monitor - so I brought it back. permanently so your system can believe the monitor is still connected. - Keyboard/mouse pass-through: if you're not in the office (ie you have something other than a standard keyboard/mouse) this is hot junk. Since the ports are "emulated" on the downstream PC, virtually all dedicated keyboard/mouse functionality is lost. Do you have a gaming mouse (Razer etc.)? Yes, good luck with that. Some people have reported that plugging a mouse into a non-mouse USB port helps, but honestly it would be better to just disable that. Or maybe you just don't have it at all - hot plugging a mouse/keyboard works 1000% better than hot plugging a monitor (see above). The monitor situation is much worse as DP was designed to support hot-plugging (DVI/HDMI half ***ed support) - so it might be the HDMI/DVI version of this switch that works fine. Unfortunately my laptop dock doesn't have HDMI and DVI is DVI-S (not D) and doesn't support 2k resolution. In short, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who is a home user/gamer or regularly (more than once a week) changes the display.