If that happens, you re-boot, and move onto something else.

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Boot-up occurs fairly quickly, and you're up and running within the minute, with most applications performing adequately on a Pentium M CPU backed by 512MB of RAM.

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Both of them are less of a "boot" and more of a "wake from hibernation" sort of thing, but most of the issues are the same -- you still have to boot a kernel, whether or not you're gonna populate the system with a saved state when it's ready.

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The employees claim they should be paid to work while the boot-ups and shut-downs are happening, since during that time they're doing tasks like paperwork or "arranging their calendar, " while the companies counters that they're probably smoking, getting coffee, or talking to people.

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We're talking the best Microsoft's partners have to offer: twisting screens, dual screens, 8-second boot-up times.

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