Running Google Chrome OS off a USB drive
The best way to try out a new OS would be to run it off a USB drive. Now you can run the early build of the Chromium OS off a USB. Just grab the Chromium OS build from here and follow instructions. If you’d rather not go to all that trouble, you can try running Chrome OS off a virtual machine like I did.
The folks at engadget have even put up a video as to how it works.
The secret behind the builds is all about creating a build. If you’d rather create the build yourself then go to Google’s build instructions page for the Chromium OS.
Running Google Chrome off the USB makes it run faster, lets you have a real feel of the OS. All you need is a bit of time and patience.