Hi - I understand that the machine that he RDPs into is more powerful but because of either problems with the installation of display drivers on that machine or because of the RDP-ing itself, that is not turning out very well. None of that power is being used. If you can fix that (probably by clean installing new drivers but that might require a trip to the office(?)), then fine. If not, running Rhino locally on the laptop at home would probably be the better option.
Did you read through this thread?
-wim