HP buys Palm: Instant on Netbook with WebOS?

Breaking news over at Engadget.com.  HP is/has bought Palm. After HTC removed themselves from possible bidders and ponying up bucks to pay Microsoft so they can license Android (weird huh) I could not think of any bidders that could benefit from it.  I assumed Palm would just become like Sega and license its software for other hardware vendors.  Well HP will be the only hardware vendor and it appears they plan to put the Palm WebOS software on a multitude of their hardware devices.  Can anyone say Palm Netbook, PalmPad, PalmTop.  I know I would love to see a touch screen netbook/tablet with Palm WebOS as the operating system or as a secondary boot for possible instant on like what Asus’s ExpressGate does for its devices.

I always liked Palm, just that  there was no way I was gonna become a Sprint customer, also wish the Pre was bigger, and a slider, and higher resolution screen.  That is all.