that was what i thought when i started using it. as a stand alone - dont do anything to it and only use big bits of software its fine. it ran a version of photoshop of the era quite well.
but do anything else, then you enter the madening world of .dll hell.
its a million times worse than trying to figure out dependances in linux. most of the missing .dll files are usually there in the system32 folder, or should that be the system folder this time and where do you bloody in hell get them, and why did the microsoft site not have a list of them somewhere, and what are they and why are they not part of the software you are using and why oh why oh why!!!
as siad i spent a week with it, trying to get wifi working and an external cd drive working. all of which should have just worked. as thats was what the instructions said.
in the end i got neither working.
such a nice machine - but with no internal floppy or cd drive and the floppy connected through pcmcia it made booting and installing other os a bit of a nightmare. i really wanted to get open gem on there.