To Taufmonster: " a simple efficient, web-catered OS would be perfect for at least 70% of the times I get on the computer."

Would you really want a device that keeps you from doing that other 30%? That 30% will begin to look really huge when you need it and you only have that Chrome OS machine handy. I would end up carrying two devices, and what's the benefit of that?

How could Chrome OS be faster if it depends on the cloud for all data and programs? The cloud is not as fast as a hard drive and won't be for a long time.

About 80% of the apps I use on my Hackintosh netbook could be done with a Web app, but about 50% of the time i want to use it I am not connected to the internet.

I think it's really elitist to build a platform that requires the kind of high bandwidth internet a Web app based OS would need. I spent three weeks in Mexico recently and I was lucky to find a pocket of Wi Fi for ten minutes a day and much of that was with really marginal connections. A Chrome OS netbook would be a doorstop 98% of the time I was there.

Also, while I use a lot of cloud apps (including most of Google apps) I will not be putting much of my private and business info on the cloud anytime soon.

And mandating an approved platform is completely contrary to the open source goals. Expect people to hack on hard drive support to the OS as one of the first things to do.

I was excited to hear about Chrome OS, as there needs to be some fresh and serious competition to the status quo, but this isn't it.

WORD! AT&T coverage does suck ass in San Francisco. It's really embarrassing AT&T! Looking at my iPhone now and no 3G or Edge even.

They are new technology, but are not as high capacity as some of the best NIMH. There are a number of high capacity NIMH AA that are 2900 Mah ( I have about a dozen of them). This battery is 2500 Mah. It does have higher voltage, but what does that matter? The 2900s I have power all my devices just fine.

It is a religion I tell ya~!

HP- They try and try to be a good environmental company, but its tough to be a behemoth and remain competitive.

I need more organization!

I need me some MS Freshness!

Is T-Mobile in the USA going to carry this? I want one to replace my iPhone (AT&T service sucks so bad in San Francisco).

The best keyboard was on the first Kindle, not that it was perfect, but the buttons were easier to press and just worked better. With the Kindle 2 and DX the press is much harder. Hard enough that I have totally change the way I hold it so that I can absorb the pressure I put on the front panel with my fingers. That's just stupid design really. Also the buttons on the DX don't really give you feedback well enough to know if the button is pressed until you wait the half second or so it takes screen to refresh, so it is very slow going.

Also on the DX you need to use the numerical keyboard more than the others because there is no hyperlinking in PDFs, you have to enter the page number you want. So removing the number buttons and putting them as alt buttons is dumb. And holding down the alt button every time you press a number is hard -- that double pressure on the front makes holding the device really tough.

It would be better if they put an on/off key by the keyboard that you could turn on and enter text on a keyboard that had easy to press buttons, then you could turn the keyboard off when you were done or didn't want it. A button press sound that would come out of the speakers would also help so you would have instant confirmation that button was pressed would be welcome too.