If you want to get a Google Chrome OS powered netbook NOW then you have to look no further than the live list of supporting hardware at The Chromium Projects site.

The list is compiled and updated by folk who are using the OS everyday and it supplies information on which netbooks, notebooks and laptops support the Chrome OS and to what degree. They give details on how the hardware supports various key features including WiFi, Ethernet and Suspend/Resume. They also leave caveats and descriptive comments to help people wanting to get their hands on Chrome right now.

The list includes proving heavyweights in the netbook world such as the Asus Eee 100x series which sport  10.1 inch displays and the Dell Mini 10v.

So it looks like as well as Google being very specific about the specs for what hardware will be needed to support the Chrome OS they are also “in bed” with a hardware manufacturers putting together their own google branded Chrome OS powered netbook.

The specs initially leaked over at IB Times seem to say that the machine will be fairly beefy. The rumours point to a 10.1 inch TFT multi touch display (HD ready of course) with an NVIDIA Tegra chipset all powered by an ARM CPU. In terms of connectivity the rumours point to the usual suspects of WiFI, Bluetooth, wired ethernet and 3G. There are also USB slots, a standard 3.5mm headphone sokcet and multi form memory card reader…. oh and a built in webcam. There’ll be 2GB of RAM available and a 64GB SSD storage. We’re not quite sure if this SSD figure is right due to Google mentioning that the OS is mainly to be used with most data being stored in the cloud but perhaps they’ve made advances in this area thanks to HTML 5 offline storage capabilities.

The release time for this is still Q4 2010.

All this is planned to come at a sub $300 cost to the end user and may even come cheaper if bought with a mobile contract in the same way that mobile handsets are subsidised today.