A way of remotely controlling Mac Retina

The more I use my expensive Mac Retina, the more I regret my purchase.
The latest restriction is not having any option to remotely control my MAC. So standing up and doing a presentation on a state of the art machine, i am forced to walk to my laptop and press buttons.
How can MAC fail so badly.
So my constructive question is to anyone out there who knows of a work around? I know there are Apps in the store, but they don't really do the job very well and if I am out and about without wireless presenting I cant use them.
Is there no bluetooth remote we can use?
HELP!

There are a number of remote desktop applications for iPhone or iPad if you have one of those. Go to the iTunes store > App store > search for Remote Desktop.
Best of luck.

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