Articles by Desire Athow, Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro

Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

Then followed a weekly tech column in a local business magazine in Mauritius, a late night tech radio programme called Clicplus and a freelancing gig at the now-defunct, Theinquirer, with the late Mike Magee as mentor. After an eight-year stint at ITProPortal.com, where he discovered the joys of global techfests and transformed the publication into one of the biggest tech B2B independent publishers, Désiré moved to TechRadar Pro where he has been the editor for nine years.

He has an affinity for anything hardware and staunchly refuses to stop writing reviews of obscure products or cover niche B2B software-as-a-service providers. He is an avid deal hunter and can be found lurking around on various deals forums.

Articles by: Desire Athow

Best WAP of 2024

By Steve Clark Last updated 19 July 24

Updated We tested the best WAP for improving Wi-Fi coverage - and these are the top picks we recommend.

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Best laptop power bank of 2024: Top-rated portable laptop battery chargers and power banks

By John Loeffler Last updated 12 July 24

Updated We've rounded up the best portable laptop battery chargers and power banks currently on the market.

Early Prime Day monitor deals are now live: grab a touchscreen display for only $39.99

By Desire Athow Published 3 July 24

Slash the cost of getting an extra screen for your laptop, desktop or even your smartphone

Best Linux laptops of 2024

By Collin Probst Last updated 21 June 24

Buying Guide We compare the best Linux laptops for running your operating system of choice smoothly.

WordPerfect review

By Desire Athow Last updated 17 June 24

Review WordPerfect provides good value for the money

Exclusive: An affordable 16TB PCIe SSD is on the way — Chinese firm behind world’s first 2TB microSD card plans another world’s first and, yes, we’re chasing a review sample

By Desire Athow Published 30 May 24

AGI is on a roll with the world’s largest PCIe SSD that will appeal to business users.

Best free software uninstaller of 2026

By Desire Athow Last updated 30 May 24

Updated We list the best free software uninstallers, to make it simple and easy to remove all of the files associated from programs that you want to remove.

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Microsoft, just give up on the whole Windows-on-Arm idea — the fixation on Apple and the Qualcomm dalliance could end up harming the very partners that stood by your side for 40 years

By Desire Athow Published 21 May 24

12 years after Windows RT, Microsoft wants to push Arm as an x86 replacement

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Dell bets big on Qualcomm processors with new stunning flagship business laptop — Latitude 7455 is Dell’s thinnest Latitude to date but will businesses warm up to Windows on Arm?

By Desire Athow Published 20 May 24

Intel and AMD have one more rival to worry about as Qualcomm takes on x86 stalwarts, but are the features enough to woo businesses?

HP embraces Qualcomm for its halo business laptop as industry prepares for third force — but mysterious Windows 11 64 NextGen Premium may well be key to the success of WoA circa 2024

By Desire Athow Published 20 May 24

HP embraces new Qualcomm AI PC offerings with two new laptops.

Apple could revive a legendary product it killed 13 years ago — heir to Xserve to run on M2 Ultra silicon according to reports but no sign of Mac OS X Server yet

By Desire Athow Published 10 May 24

Apple throws down the gauntlet at Google and Microsoft in the race toward AI domination

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Interview: The truth about business AI, data centers, and why startups need support too

By Desire Athow Published 26 March 24

We talk AI, data centers, and startups with John Yue, the CEO and Co-Founder of Inference.ai

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Getac: Rugged mobile technology is stronger than ever, but we're sticking to computing devices for now

By Desire Athow Published 17 March 24

Paul Waddilove, Managing Director, UK & Nordics at Getac reveals what to look for when buying a rugged device and why we won't see a Getac rugged phone any time soon

How to hide your IP address with a VPN

By Desire Athow Last updated 15 March 24

VPN Your IP address reveals a lot about your online activity to nosy ISPs, advertisers, and even the government. With a VPN, however, you can hide it.

One of China’s largest phone makers launched a laptop that will turn heads — Honor’s MagicBook Pro 16 has 32GB RAM by default and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 GPU

By Desire Athow Published 28 February 24

There’s another player wanting to grab a share of the premium laptop market

Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

By Desire Athow Published 27 February 24

Reddit over-indexing on Google, then the $60 million Google AI deal: Is something else brewing?

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World’s largest laptop vendor wants you to buy fewer notebooks by allowing users to change batteries and other parts — but a tiny tweak could be a deal breaker

By Desire Athow Published 27 February 24

Lenovo is partnering with iFixit to deliver ThinkPad laptops with user-replaceable parts

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The cheapest printer to run or own in 2024

By Desire Athow Last updated 22 February 24

We spend hours every month looking at the cheapest printers to own and the cheapest printers to print

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The best 128GB RAM laptop in 2024: memory for even the most resource-intensive tasks

By Desire Athow Last updated 22 February 24

Updated Check out the laptops we’ve found boasting an epic 128GB of system memory.

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The most powerful laptop in 2026: the fastest, speediest notebooks in the world

By Desire Athow Last updated 22 February 24

Updated Great for creative pros with the need for speeds, CFD, traders and everyone in between.

First Ryzen 8000 mini PC goes on sale with an affordable price tag for an AI PC - and it is surprisingly good value for money

By Desire Athow Published 20 February 24

GMK NucBox K8 comes with a Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU but no PCI 5.0 SSD.

Controversial hard drive vendor breaks new record with cheapest HDD yet

By Desire Athow Last updated 20 February 24

12TB for under $90 with full three year warranty? What’s the trick?

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The best security key of 2024: hardware keys for top online protection

By John Loeffler Last updated 20 February 24

Updated Secure your online accounts with our picks for the best security keys.

Best secure router of 2024

By Collin Probst Last updated 14 February 24

Looking for the best secure router? These are our top picks.

We’ve got $10 10K HDMI video cables already on sale — so where are these cheap 8K monitors?

By Desire Athow Published 4 February 24

After an initial promising start, it seems that 8K, at least on desktop, is just a fad.

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