Just to move this forward a bit:
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Engadget: Google names Chrome OS compatriots, Dell noticeably absent
Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments -- according to the latest Chrome OS update from Google, you're looking at the company's initial ragtag team of co-conspirators for its entry into the operating system business. With Adobe's involvement, we can assume Flash support is a given, and the others unsurprisingly run the gamut of netbook and smartbook players. We can't help but notice a couple of conspicuous absences on that list, including Intel and Dell. With Intel, you don't need to partner to work on its chips, but we gotta imagine it'd help by offering more support, and as for Dell, we don't know about that one, but there's still plenty of time for the Big G to enlist more companies in the lead up to its second half 2010 debut.
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Just as the snippet reads, there's still plenty of time for other companies to come aboard, and I'm sure that they will, but this alone is promising. None of the other alternative OS I've used have cut the muster since I use my netbook primarily to shoot tethered to my camera - it'll be nice to see if Chrome develops into a serious contender with Adobe support.
However, I'd settle if Adobe tweaked flash to use resources more efficiently on netbooks so that I won't have to overclock just run Hulu videos decently.