Stop Messages from doing message updates

This is driving me insane.
When you boot your computer, Messages loads and starts updating with all the messages you've done on other devices. So while your computer is off, if you do a few conversations with iMessages on your iPhone, when you boot your computer, you will see these conversations update on your Messages app.
Although it sounds nice in theory. I have a computer that I don't use for 4 days and when I finally get back to it, I have to wait 10 minutes for the message updates to finish.
A simple solution would be to stop doing the timed message updates (the updates are following a timing, so you don't get everything at once, but little by little as if the conversation is happening in real-time, although fastened) and give all the updates at once. This way, you get everything in a second and can get to work.
A second solution is to allow in the preferences to de-activate the message updates altogether.
But no matter what, something has to be done. Anybody else annoyed by this "feature" ?

File feedback to apple.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
A simple solution would be for it to have a button that says (load previous chats) just like it sort of already does.

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