Made a couple edits. "Those after realism like OpFlash2 or ARMA II. Those after robust arcade style gameplay like BC2 (or still play BF2/BF2142). Those after simple arcade style gameplay like MW." Although, I agree MW2 sucks. I picked it up from the free Steam weekend deal and deleted after my second match.

I think you fall into the exact opposite target demographic that Google is going after with their chrome OS. I think you also fail to realize that chrome OS isn't looking for 100% market saturation, or anywhere near it. Of course their system isn't designed to replace computers for resource intensive applications. Also, why should they stop producing an OS when it does what it was designed to do well and fits the bill for a section of the market? They're not forcing you to buy it.

There's also the "sword-through-tv" factor. I'm sure liability is a huge reason no one has made a sword attachment.

Get a bit torrent client like uTorrent that has built in bandwidth throttling. No hardware to mess with. Plus with uTorrent you can set up bandwidth schedules so during the day you have torrents use 50% bandwidth and at night 90%.