Looping with a Netbook?

["Michael Peters" <mp@mpeters.de>]

saw Kim Cascone's Dell Netbook yesterday and thought, I want one too, for
looping and travelling. But would it have enough power (under Windows - I'm
a Windows user) to run Bidule and a whole bunch of plugins that are
occasionally almost too much for my larger Vaio? those netbooks all seem to
have 1.6GHz and an Atom processor and a friend said he thinks it would be
too weak for music purposes. Any experiences anyone?

-Michael