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What's your computers CGF?

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I've invented a new acronym (well Microsoft TLA, anyways...)

CGF - Computer Grog Factor.

 This is the amount of time it takes from when you take your computer out of sleep mode until it becomes usable. 

Right now this is top of mind because the CGF on my laptop has been getting a lot worse.  It now takes 15 minutes after I come out of sleep mode for me to be able to use Outlook.  Now, to be fair, I am running Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008, MOSS, IIS, etc running so there is a lot of stuff that has to spin back up.

Still, I would like to have access to my computer a lot faster.  You constantly see people walking around with their laptops open.  The reason they do this is because they dont want the expense of closing their laptop, having it go to sleep, and then reopening it again and waiting for their computer to awake and start listening for instructions.

What's your CGF?