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I am frustrated by the fact that I have to buy it in a hardware-packaged form, why can't I just download Chrome OS to an older laptop to experiment (like I do with Linux distros)? I guess at this stage the OS is flimsy enough that they need to control all aspects of hardware.

Also, the support & distribution thing from Google doesn't work, we have already seen it with G1. Why do they want to repeat the mistake?

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Chrome OS is open source http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

A quick search in google you can find tutorials on how to run it on your own hardware.

Not so easy! Currently most people use a build by Hexxeh, which is a slightly tweaked version of Chrome. Installation is nowhere as easy as, say, Ubuntu. I don't understand why I need to use builds from third parties rather than directly from Google?

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