Arch on old vaio laptop (64mb ram, amd K6 550Mhz)

Can I run Archlinux + awesomewm on this old laptop? or that's no realistic?

The minimum system requirements say i686 architecture and minimum 64MB RAM. You have the 64MB RAM and Here it states that a AMD K6 is i686 architecture. So, it should, but it won't be stellar.
Edit: Although it might work out of the box I'd also look at compiling your own kernel from scratch with only what you need to reduce that memory footprint. Compiling a kernel is a pain but if it's pared down quite a bit would only take a bit of time.
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