They don't recommend a specific netbook to use for the installation (or I just missed it), but as far as battery life goes: the Acer Chromebook is rated at 6 ho

They don't recommend a specific netbook to use for the installation (or I just missed it), but as far as battery life goes: the Acer Chromebook is rated at 6 hours, and the Samsung at 8.5 hours. My Eee PC 1005HA was rated at 10.5 hours, and after having it for a bit less than 1.5 years gets - in normal usage, not in theoretical manufacturer-rated usage - between 8 and 9 hours. I haven't seen the figures for boot time for Chromebooks, so I can't really compare that. Since the Chromebooks don't have physical harddrives but instead a small SSD (as they don't need local storage for anything but the operating system, and that reducing the moving parts makes them less likely to fail), it might be difficult to get the same boot time.