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Multi-input desk monitor

Desk display that takes a computer over USB-C and a console over HDMI

More than one video input on a single screen, with a switch that cycles between them. USB-C carries picture and power down one cable to a laptop or a tablet. HDMI takes the console. Press the switch and the desk swaps between work and a game, with nothing unplugged and no move to another room. Against an Apple display the trade is usually brightness, speaker quality and the loss of keyboard brightness controls.

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  • Federico ViticciDoes it

    Apple writer · founder of MacStories

    Rebuilt his desk around one display that takes USB-C from the iPad and HDMI from a console, with a button on the back that cycles the inputs. Finding a monitor that would do both was, he writes, one of the two things that had stopped him using the iPad for everything.

    Source: MacStories: iPad Pro for Everything

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