My goals; what are my needs?

Hello folks,
I currently have a MacPro and in many ways I regret the decision. I am a grad student but also I composer/musician. I have Logic Pro and I mainly use it to sketch out ideas for new works. I only use it to create demos and never mastered CDs. I know it is overkill, but I realize that now.
I am interested in some portability now as some of the people I work with live elsewhere and I want to bring my computer/interface/mics/etc to them and have them play on their particular instrument/vocal work for my compositions. I want to continue working with Logic Pro since that is what I'm used to now. What is the minimum laptop I can use to do some recording, location recording and some overdubbing? I use an Apogee Duet and I will never record more than two audio tracks at once.
Can I get away with an older model iBook or something? What are the requirements that will make it pretty trouble free? I'm willing to use a simpler program (garageband?) to find something portable.
I almost bought a Zoom or Edirol to fulfil this task, but I can't stand the small screens.
Any advice will be appreciated...
thanks

Thank you all for your input. It was helpful.
It is mainly for recording 1 or 2 simultaneous tracks of my collaborators improvisations, or my collaborators playing my compositional ideas. They would this on top of 1 to 4 other tracks.
I don't believe any (or many) plug-ins will be used as the aim is to "hear" compositional ideas I have in my head or on paper to see if a certain idea has potential. My main goals is to put together sketches, tracks to create the workings of a new piece. I'm not looking at making finished recordings, as I always plan to do that at a professional studio with an engineer that has more experience than I do. All the assembly of tracks/sketches/ideas will take place at home on my MacPro. I just need something to record my other instrumentalists at my collaborators' homes--thus the portability needed.
I used to use a Zoom H4 to record improvisational sessions of my small ensemble. But what I found was that the small screen is really inconvenient to use to overdub new tracks.
Thank you jdredge for your experience with your Powerbook. This is input I'm looking for. Real world experience with LP7 and older (cheaper) portables. I have an Apogee Duet as my interface. In all, I don't think I would I would have more than 5 tracks, probably 3 acoustic and one or two VI. Even then, my collaborators will probably be recording on top of 3 or 4 other tracks at most.
I've started looking at places that sell older portables. I've spent so much on this MacPro and other goodies that I can't afford the newest laptops (although it is so tempting to go into further debt).
Thanks in advance for any further guidance.

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