A little more info about remote operating using the LogMeIn route. Just try the free version on your laptop to your desktop or office setup, from the next room or the next seat, so you can have confidence that you can do what you need. You don't need a tablet, but you can use one. I usually can get away with a tablet, but occasionally take a laptop where I know I might have a lot of typing.

As they do a free version, you can't really lose! There are videos on YouTube of how to do it. The premium version allows you to transfer stuff between your computers and stream music etc, but the free version lets you just sit with your home screen in front of you and your laptop acting as if you were a thousand miles away back in the office, when you are on a beach in another hemisphere!

Feel free to PM me.