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Toshiba Satellite May Double as Handy Labor Day BBQ

John Paczkowski in News on September 3, 2010 at 11:34 am PT

If you’re reading this on a Toshiba laptop, you might want to switch from AC to battery power before continuing. The company is recalling 41,000 of its Satellite computers for fear that they may overheat and injure someone.

Skipping Your Computer’s Warm-Up Time

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on January 20, 2009 at 6:10 pm PT

The time it takes to boot up a computer can be a source of frustration — especially if you’re in a rush and just want to log on, get information and move on with your day. If televisions took as long as PCs take to start working, we’d miss game-winning touchdowns.