The manufacturers put that stuff on PCs and then the user puts Itunes, spyware, adware, and other crap that runs at startup and bogs down their pcs.

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Bluetooth, a popular protocol for short-range networking, zips along at up to a megabit per second, but it bogs down when more than eight devices are linked up.

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It's really something that bogs down my educational experience.

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And historical inquiry inevitably bogs down in complexity.

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