Well, that was easy. Installed the 'home user' version on an X61s from March 2008 so an 8 year old laptop. Listening to an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum mp3

Well, that was easy. Installed the 'home user' version on an X61s from March 2008 so an 8 year old laptop. Listening to an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum mp3 from local storage using the built in mp3 player (all sound buttons recognised). The X61s has an Atheros wifi card and Intel graphics so not too exotic in terms of drivers. 1.5Gb RAM and a 64Gb SSD and quite responsive except on 'noisy' Web sites where scrolling down the page will stutter now and again. I might be evil and switch one of the cores off in the BIOS and pull a RAM stick out and see how it goes. You boot off the USB, you select language/keyboard and connect to wifi. Then the Adobe Flash installer appears. After that you can log in with your Google account and use the system as a live usb or choose to install to hard drive. The latter option again asks for the language/keyboard stuff and then asks about single or dual boot. I went for single boot so erase whole drive, then you click next and you get a summary screen.Click 'next' and it is away - your existing data gone and a happy bar in the form of three 'bubbles'. It powers down when the install is finished. Rebooting you get the language/keyboard thing again and then sign into the Google account. Claiming just under 4 hours on the old 6 cell battery. Fan calm. Top shows cpus bumbling along at around 5% or so playing this track with fairly 'calm' Web sites loaded. Font rendition is nice as might be expected. I might set up another Google account for specifically testing this thing out on normal workloads. Might also try it on a Samsung NC10 netbook which has trickier kernel driver requirements (Samsung extensions). I think that the company would benefit from mentioning the ability to run a live session off the USB stick without installing more prominently. They might get more eyeballs that way.