Avram Piltch

1 week ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

The HP Omen Max 16 offers good performance, stunning visuals and layered sound, but it’s a lot to lug around. Pros+Gorgeous OLED screen+Rich audio output+Solid performance+Sharp webcamCons-Very heavy-Short battery life-Mushy keyboardWhy you can trust Tom's HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test.

1 week ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them. Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis.

1 week ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

Before I made a change, this happened to me all the time. I'd go to shut down or restart my Windows 11 PC and then I'd get up to use the bathroom, expecting the PC to be off or completely rebooted by the time I got back. Instead, I'd get an error message like the one below: "This app is preventing you from restarting."(Image credit: Future)What's really going on here is not a bug, but a safety feature, one which is very annoying.

2 weeks ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch |Paul Alcorn |Andrew Freedman |Jarred Walton

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)The tech industry is facing some headwinds. Manufacturers, sellers, and consumers are more concerned than ever about prices and stock as a global trade war upends the supply chain. But, even as we face these challenges, many companies continue to innovate in ways that surprise and delight us. It’s time to celebrate those who move the ball forward, even in tough times.

3 weeks ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

For a short time in college, I went to a school in an unsavory neighborhood. And there was this one panhandler who was very aggressive; he’d follow you around asking for change, and if you gave him change, it only encouraged him to stalk you more. That guy was far less annoying than Microsoft Windows, which keeps trying to extract money from me by hawking its XBox Game Pass subscription service over and over again.