Need to Share Keyboard, Video, and Mouse Between Windows Laptop and Mac

I need a Mac that shares a keyboard, video, and mouse with my company issued Windows laptop. Usually this just requires a KVM switch but the current iMac has no video input. Subsequently, I can't feed video from the Windows laptop to the iMac's screen.
_Are these the only solutions for my situation?_
1) Buy a Mac Mini and share a separate LCD (Too underpowered for me)
2) Buy a Mac Workstation and share a separate LCD (Too overpowered and pricey for me)
3) Buy a MacBook Pro (Might work but I am wasting $ since I don't need portability)
4) Wait for new iMac that MAY have an input (Like it should already!) Anybody have any info on this!?
Many Thanks!

I think what you are looking for is an open souce program called Synergy that works on both Mac and PC to give you a software KV(not M).
You set one machine up as the server, and the other as a client. The server will then control the control the keyboard and mouse of the client machine.
The alternate is Microsofts virtual screen sharing that allows you to see and control your windows machine in a window on your Mac. All of these require some set up, so you might want to check with your works IT dept.

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> > Hi!,
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> > In Zenworks 3.2 I want to filter between Windows 2000 and Windows xp
> > machines. As a result I want Windows 2000 machines to be imported in a
> > different container then Windows xp machines, but unfortunately windows
> > 2000 en windows xp are on one tab. How do i separate?
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> > Do i need zen 4 or some kind of snapin?
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> > TIA
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> > Peter
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> > --
> >
> > Peter Taal
> > HagaZiekenhuis,locatie Rode Kruis
> > Afdeling Informatisering en Automatisering
> > mailto:[email protected]
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