Anyhoo, the laptop is maybe running, mostly hobbling.  Probably lack of memory in the graphics department, thirty seconds of tutorial, a minute of waiting, then another thirty seconds of tut.  Can't use the trackball with W8, no middle mouse button, no click on the scroll, and that means no orbit the view in Blender or Wings.  Keyboard workaround doesn't, so now I have to fight with a scroll button mouse, or in Wings, hit the tab and use numeric inputs, far preferable to trying tomove something a smidge with the mouse.  It's an Acer Aspire V5 if anyone wants to look it up, but I won't be buying another one like it.  I think it's got lithium poly batteries, which I might have to think about a little, I've had some of my indoor helicopters start to smoke while charging, and they're all LiPo batteries. 

Crash to desktop is still the only error handling it has.  I didn't expect anything else.  Didn't get it either.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.