The laptop that would not sleep

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Previewing Windows Vista power management, Dr. Dave remembers closing a laptop, placing it in a padded pocket of his enormous wheeled briefcase and later finding the battery dead and the machine too hot to start. He welcomes a system designed to honor sleep and shutdown commands even when another program tries to interrupt them.

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Proposed recording date: 2005-08-27. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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