Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.  I will hold off on
    the netbook
    idea for now.

    Actually, the AudioPint concept is really playing with my
    imagination.
    Hmmm...
    Gem in a box, literaly.  With enough forethought, it could be
    awesome.

    -Ben

Yes do an audio pint. Get a Mini ITX board with say a dual Atom or Core 2 Duo and an NVidia card and you should be alright. I just got a new Pico ITX board a little larger than a pack of cigarettes. It's a 1Ghz VIA with 1G ram and its running PD in realtime nicely. Don't go nano or pico ITX as you'd have they have integrated graphics and no pcie expansion slots.

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