As of now, ChromeOS is designed to run on Google specified hardware, and it does not support hardware running in your laptop or desktop. Adding extra hardware drivers isn’t Google’s top priorities at the moment since all Chromebooks run on the same hardware, but hopefully sooner than later, Google will add more hardware compatibility and release ChromeOS for anyone to use. Until then Hexxeh has taken it upon himself to add more hardware support than the current "vanilla" build of ChromiumOS. Try it out!

Hexxeh’s ChromeOS is available in couple of different flavor. You may download USB image and run it straight from a flashdrive alongside your current operating system or download the VMWare image and run it in a safe virtualized environment without any fear of injuring your day-to-day computer. Bleeding edge nightly build of ChromiumOS is also compiled every day at 6PM GMT and released on his website. Try it out, but be ready to encounter some flaws and performances issues here and there. Read Hexxeh’s FAQ before you proceed with the install.

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So far, this is just a concept of Chrome OS’s touch interface, but Telegraph claims that Google is already in talks with HTC, the handset manufacturer behind Google branded Nexus One and countless other Android powered handsets.

“Although Chromium is not an official Google website, the concept video has been put together by Glen Murphy, one of Google’s Chrome OS designers. Google is also reportedly in discussions with Taiwanese consumer electronics giant HTC about making a touch-screen tablet computer. HTC already makes many of the mobile phones that run Google’s Android operating system, and designed and built Google’s own-brand handset, the Nexus One.”

Chrome OS was initially meant for the netbooks and this concept could very well mean they could be considering the possibility of scaling their new operating system to touch input based tablet computers as well. Meanwhile, companies like HP are already working on their own tablet computers.

Chrome OS tablet actually sounds like a neat idea, if at all it ever sees the light of the day. Since hardware manufacturers like Dell and HP would very soon be rolling out their own iPad killers, it makes sense for Google to support touch input devices for Chrome OS.

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