By the end of the 45-minute "boot camp" exercise class, the four remaining participants down from the eight who had started were drenched in sweat, out of breath and completely flushed.
Laptop got an early hands-on with Dell's 12-inch Mini 12 netbook and found it to be a bit sluggish, with two-minute long boot times and four whole minutes before all the preloaded software got its act together.
Meant to fit into busy and crowded corners of homes, the device will start immediately, rather than requiring a minute to boot like most personal computers.
THE BEAMERS A problem with the gaming devices is that they tend to take a couple of minutes to boot up.
AYC Health and Fitness, a personal training center in Prairie Village, Kan., runs "30-minute express" boot camps every morning, both on-site and at corporate locations.
In the first six minutes of boot camp on a recent Tuesday night, the trainer Adam Rosante has a class of 27 audibly gasping for breath, already having exercised every muscle.
Joe Deutch's tension-filled five-minute video "Boot, Re-Boot," shows him brazenly attaching an automobile boot to a police cruiser in broad daylight on a Los Angeles street, extending the tradition of incendiary performance works initiated some 30 years ago in Southern California by Chris Burden.
So now we have to wait for the brownout to be over, then wait an additional 90 minutes to "boot up" the machines.
One Pot Mac and Cheese Everything is done right on your stove top--and in 30 minutes to boot.
It may take a few minutes to boot into recovery mode.
If the cleaner sits on the surface for a minute, your boots are finished.
