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ThirteenXIII

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Mar 8, 2008
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I currently have as my main machine a 15" MBP and was thinking of getting a 27" iMac refurb with atleast the i5 CPU and 1TB or 2TB HDD to use mainly as my MBPs display and a spare machine that can also encode movies in the background for me.

Question is in Target Display Mode, I would end up using the wired keyboard andmouse primarily (gaming, editing etc) and just the iMac as a display would I need to unplug them from each machine each time to use them each time or how exactly does it compute the attached USB peripherals? I dont take it its sent down MDP?

otherwise best suggestions on this possibly set up.

Thanks.
 
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