I've been monitoring my imaging sessions from the comfort of the couch in front of the telly using the iPad.
The laptop sits out next to the scope and using Splashtop I can control the PC from the iPad. Generally I set the run up on the PC and just use the iPad to monitor the guiding and the image capture.
Yeah, it is a pretty good way to do it. I use the (free) logmein app as I also use that to control our remote computers at work. I'll check splashtop out. I see it is now $5.50 instead of $21