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To the parent's point... I'd recommend a hackintosh Intel NUC. I got blisters stuffing RAM SIMMs into daughter cards. I've agonized over IRQ choices for peripherals. I'm so over fiddling with my daily driver. I've got Audrinos and RPi projects for scratching that itch.

Uncertainty over the keyboards is precisely why I postponed replacing my laptop.

I'd probably use my iMac more if I could find a keyboard & trackpad combo in the same form factor as my laptop's. I want the trackpad flush and centered below the keyboard. I've used cardboard wedges to fake the arrangement, but it's not the same. And since Teleport has stopped working, I haven't figured out how to use my laptop's inputs across devices. (First world problems, I know.)

I've been using Synergy in place of teleport. Not as good but gets the job done. There's a top shelf paid version but an older free version does the job for me.

https://symless.com/synergy

If you build a newer version from source you can get the best of both worlds: Free, while also not blasting your passwords across the network in plaintext

> I'd recommend a hackintosh Intel NUC

What models work with minimal fuss? What about updates? How do I know that an update won't replace/delete some kext that I need and brick it or break some required functionality?

I really wanted to do this a year ago - except there wasn't any hardware that seemed to answer those questions satisfactorily. In the end, the stability of knowing I can turn on the computer and start work every day without worrying about having to drop into a recovery console because an update f'd is worth more to me than a few grand.

Maybe things have changed?

Have you seen https://bullettrain.com/products/express-keyboard-platform? I have an older version of this and I love it.

I had not. Thank you!

I use this piece of software for Windows/MacOS mouse and keyboard sharing: http://www.keyboard-and-mouse-sharing.com/

It works reasonably well.

I think Synergy does what you needed with Teleport. I used it at work a while back when I had Apple devices and it worked great as long as I had the MacBook set up as the host.

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