Thanks @nacx, your first comment is a very good spot: maybe better to remove the checkNotNull, ok?
For you second comment: would it make sense to add a tag to the hardware to store the deprecated status, so that one can filter on it? --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs-google/pull/24#issuecomment-41397216
