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Rob H

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4th Jun, 2009 at 09:00:20am

I'm slowly waiting for my work laptop to power up so I can crack on with work, so far it's been half an hour since I took it out of it's case and hit the power button.

Oh and I've had to enter four different user names & password plus two security dongles (BIOS, Logon, Remote Connection to the Network & Accessing Shared Data Environment) so far and I'm still not in, grr IT security don't you just love it.

Edited by Rob H on 4th Jun, 2009.

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4th Jun, 2009 at 09:40:40am

Mine regularly takes 45 minutes and 2 or 3 logins before it works properly.

That's progress!!

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4th Jun, 2009 at 10:12:34am

I leave my work laptop on standby, that way I'm straight back in, otherwise its 1/2hr or so of rebooting and swearing at the damn thing.


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4th Jun, 2009 at 10:16:06am

I thought mine took a while at 10 mins. The new PC in the office is up and running in less than 60secs

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4th Jun, 2009 at 11:02:48am

My works PC hates me!

on the first day i got it, it crashed. The relationship never recovered from that point!

i once told me i didn't have permission to switch it off!

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4th Jun, 2009 at 11:10:32am

Jeez.
Mine takes about 1 minute. My PC takes a smidge longer due to the servery-stuff that needs to start up on it, and my PC here at work is about a minute longer than that.

You all need to poke your IT chaps, or get upgrades!


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4th Jun, 2009 at 11:10:47am

Work PC gets left on all the time, otherwise I've got too many different systems to log on to when the machine starts up!

My personal MacBook boots in around 20 seconds or so.....

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4th Jun, 2009 at 10:18:54pm

How old are all these laptops ? and how much porn is on them ?

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4th Jun, 2009 at 10:19:09pm

the computers at work take about 15 inutes to boot up properly (if you only have to do it once) stupid remote server crap.

my pc and laptop at home both take less than a minute

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