Would you use a NX/VNC/RemoteDesktop solution for day-to-day stuff?

my computer has decayed to the point where i need to reinstall windows, but it's too much of a hassle. this got me thinking it would be nice if someone maintained a computer somewhere in a datacenter and charged me a low monthly fee to just log in and use it like my desktop, via a thin-client (like a low-powered netbook). something like onlive (http://www.onlive.com) but for normal desktop computing rather than videogames

would you use something like that? does it already exist? do you know if this is something companies do internally, and do they do it with success?

p.s. no windows-bashing please--my ubuntu install on the same machine pooped out halfway through a dist upgrade is now a mix of koala and lynx...