Silly question: would we be able to run “Final Cut Pro” or Sony Vegas on this guy...?
It would not run software made for windows, then..? Like it could not run Word?
Ubuntu 12.10 runs Wine impressively fast. I have UT3 and Office 2011 running via Wine.
There are options though. Libre Office has a megaton of functionality while being both free and lightweight.
If you can put a regular Linux distro on it like Ubuntu et. al. then you can put OpenOffice or LibreOffice on it. You get all the same basic functionality of the MS Office suite but for free. Yes there can be formatting issues when exchanging files between the Open/Libre-Office apps and MS-Office apps, but if you stick to standard fonts and routine layouts/features you’re in good shape.