Users lose 5 days a year due to slow computers

Computer users lose more than five-and-a-half days a year to slow-loading computers, applications, and files.

That is according to a study of PC and laptop users, which found slow computers are causing almost one-third of people to be put in a bad mood for the rest of the day. Some 17% have relieved their frustration over a gadget through physical aggression by either throwing it against a wall or stamping on it.

According to the study, by flash memory firm SanDisk, computer users in Britain last year lost over 130 hours of free time to slow loading computers, apps, and files.