Performance wise, I think it's fine; the challenge is the ribbon. It takes up a lot of space, and you've only got 600 to start with. Most of the time I have to hide it.
Runs great, just change the size of the word documents and its great. Seems to load quickly, and zero lag, runs as fast as on my core 2 duo 1.8. I'm using 1.5 gig ram and the std 80 gig hard drive.