Can you make it?
Yup. One part of it is the driver guide though. Driver support generally sucks right now. We are running it on an Asus ux32vd and a Socket1366 930 and it's horrible. I updated the drivers on the ux32vd last night and now it is BSOD ing with some sort of watchdog error.
The desktop part of the OS is very fast but it is still super squirrely Bc of driver issues.
Oh and no safe mode that I have found so far. It hangs on some b.s. repair wizard.