@monkeycloud: Agreed on the visual presentation of the View Ports. I generally find RDP, VNC or just any remote destop software painful when it comes to refreshing complex graphics.

Real-time rendering has come a long way with regards to View Port manipulation; when I started out with 3D rendering I always found that inputting parameters directly into a command line (Auto CAD still uses this as a central feature) was more efficient than using the mouse to visually analyze and manipulate the scene.

A workstation up in the cloud would force me back just about 20 years with regards to that (wow I'm old...lol).

But I'll try it out just to see if it's at all workable, I'll just have to use old tricks like using the lit wire frame view instead of loading all of the textures.