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> We're looking at rack mountable KVMs with slide-out keyboard drawer > and flip-up monitor (17"- 19") under $2000 price tag. Any > recommendations of what to get or experience with one to stay away > from? Tripp-Lite, NetView, etc. Are they good/bad? Thanks in advance. You're looking for a rack console, or a KVM? We have one of the Tripp-Lite rack consoles. Keyboard layout is odd in irritating ways (at least for my unix habits), and mechanically it ends up stabbing your wrists with the edges of its sheet metal. On the other hand, it was significantly cheaper than some of the other options. The Avocent KVM units have serious issues with their java remote video applets being unreliable under Linux. The Raritan Dominion units are also a bit quirky, but seem nicer overall. Raritan has little boxes which are basically VT100 terminals without the picture tube -- serial on one side, VGA port on the other -- which you could plug into nearly any KVM. Probably expensive, but I haven't checked. De