I love my Netbook too, but it’s not quite suitable for our industry. The resolution of most netbooks means the depth is 600, not 640 (at present anyway). So Playtech casinos for example don’t fit and you can’t resize them. Almost unplayable as you can’t see your balance. MG just fits everything in view, just, but only if you hide your windows program bar.
I like competition, as long as it doesn’t cause me extra hassle designing websites. That’s the main reason I hate Firefox…pain in the arse with CSS. And Google Chrome shouldn’t affect us web devs too much if at all so bring it on 
The key to its success IMO will be who Google partner with to get it distributed ‘cos your everyday mum/dad/sister/brother aren’t going to bother installing a new o/s, only the techie folks. Hasn’t stopped me registering some domains though 