angular phonecat tutorial protractor testcase failure - angularjs

Question

I've just installed the angular phonecat tutorial here on an old laptop running Lubuntu 14.04. When I run npm run protractor it fails on the 5th testcase listed in the scenarios.js file. The testcase in question is:
it('should display nexus-s page', function() {
expect(element(by.binding('phone.name')).getText()).toBe('Nexus S');
});
the response at the terminal I get is:
selenium standalone is up to date.
chromedriver is up to date.
> angular-phonecat#0.0.0 protractor /home/david/angular-phonecat
> protractor test/protractor-conf.js
Using ChromeDriver directly...
....F..
Failures:
1) PhoneCat App Phone detail view should display nexus-s page
Message:
Expected '' to be 'Nexus S'.
Stacktrace:
Error: Failed expectation
at [object Object].<anonymous> (/home/david/angular-phonecat/test/e2e/scenarios.js:84:59)
Finished in 19.212 seconds
7 tests, 11 assertions, 1 failure
npm ERR! angular-phonecat#0.0.0 protractor: `protractor test/protractor-conf.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the angular-phonecat#0.0.0 protractor script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the angular-phonecat package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! protractor test/protractor-conf.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls angular-phonecat
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-39-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "protractor"
npm ERR! cwd /home/david/angular-phonecat
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/david/angular-phonecat/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
I'm running this on a fairly old laptop so I wonder if its a performance issue.