You should definitely check how much power you need. I was running a similar atom cpu (on another board) and it was giving me about 10% of the performance that I got with a twice as fast AMD Athlon II X2 260. It could barely run 2 (rather complex) sampler - voices compared to about 24 on the other AMD box. No tests with GEM, though!

Ingo

Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:06:54 -0400 From: "Ivica Ico Bukvic" ico@vt.edu Subject: Re: [PD] PD on Atom Processors To: " 'Felix Ob?e' " felix@amphibiousthoughts.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at

FWIW L2Ork (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/ ) runs

entirely on >MSI Wind U100 netbooks with Atom processors. Everything works just fine. You will >top off the CPU relatively quickly as these things are not built for speed. Still, you >should get a decent amount of performance out of them. I haven?t used much Gem >(yet) but did construct a few test patches and it did behave perfectly fine, even with >Compiz on. The only device that has shown some instability is wireless which can >occasionally drop a wireless connection (although this may be simply because I am

running an older version of Ubuntu, namely 9.10).