Run SL on one fast pc but control it on another slower pc?

I have a fast HTPC upstairs with a 3ghz cpu and a 4850 gpu which runs SL beautifully. However i still have an old crt tv so its no fun using sl on it. Downstairs i have a mac mini which runs SL really badly. Is there anyway to run SL on the HTPC but control and see it on the mac mini? Some sort of remote access?

I have mac osx and windows 7 on the mac mini and windows 7 on the HTPC with an ethernet cable running between both through a router.

Should certainly be possible, remote control software has been around for ages. The question is, how much will things be slowed down, passing all the screen shots over your network ?

Here's a short article - http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1441

Hopefully, somebody has tried it and can give you some feedback...............

I have used Remote Admin to log to another computer and run SL -- and yes, it does slow things down quite a bit. There is the network latency, which probably would not be too horrid inside a home network, rather than traversing the miles that I was. However, it still has to render the graphics and such to you on the not-so-great PC, so your perceived lag is still going to be there.

You still depend on the graphics card rending SL on the slower client computer, so you don't gain the speed of the faster host at all.

Why not swap out the computers and hook the HTPC up to the better display? The Mac Mini should be able to do anything to PC can on a CRT television.

Well it is an HD CRT, tv and movies look great on it but its very soft for anything else. I will be upgrading the mac mini to a decent imac in the next year so i guess ill just have to live with it until then.

Thanks for the help guys