Google has revealed at least some of the hardware manufacturers its working with to design and build devices that run the much-discussed Google Chrome Operating System.

With a post to the official Chrome blog Wednesday afternoon, the Mountain View Chocolate Factory said its hardware partners include Acer, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

Would you buy this? I might, if the hardware is small and responsive, the operating system is fast and stable and the software has the right set of features. I can see a lightweight Netbook being useful as a laptop replacement on the train but none of the current crop has really caught my eye.