Will it Run Well

I have an old Intel Celeron M380 1.6ghz single core laptop with ddr2 2gb of ram. I am just wondering how well Ubuntu will run on a single core.

It says it needs a dual core.the laptop came with windows xp but the code has wo off and I had to put a new drive in it.

So instead of paying for a new copy of Windows, I want to put Ubuntu on it.

I just want to know if it will run properly.