cold start took more than two minutes (Mossberg)

[Kevin Callahan]

Using Even New PCs
Is Ruined by a Tangle
Of Trial Programs, Ads

I also was shocked at how long this machine took to restart and to do  
a cold start after being completely shut down. Restarting took over  
three minutes, and a cold start took more than two minutes. That  
suggests the computer is loading a bunch of stuff I neither know  
about nor want. By contrast, a brand new Apple MacBook laptop, under  
the same test conditions, restarted in 34 seconds and did a cold  
start in 29 seconds.

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