They told me the iPad I was going to kill the netbooks. You've got one of them zombie netbooks!
My netbook is one tough cookie - Win-7 64 bit, 4 gig of RAM, 500 gig HD, dual-core processor. It's got a little horsepower. Plus, I have its flank protected by my old netbook which sports Linux (for experimental purposes only).
I'm actually pretty happy with this netbook, and I don't see any significant problems that an iPad might resolve.