Yeah, I use Microsoft's RDC for Mac tool to control my laptop when its in the docking station... it was better (by not needing polling for video redirect), but now some of the VNC servers include a display driver hook (like TightVNC) which helps, but is still not quite as fast. RDC will redirect audio which is nice, while quite a few VNC clients have file-transfer stuff built into them if you are not networking drives.