Desire Athow

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

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I scoured every last corner of the internet and this is the cheapest student laptop deal I could find with an Nvidia RTX GPU

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Prime Day The HP Victus 15 is one of the best budget laptops around for students, creatives, and gamers - and this price makes it even better

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A challenge for creators and gamers - can anyone beat this PC deal that's still going for under $900? I covered Prime Day and nothing comes close

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Prime Day With these specs at this price, I don't believe anything can beat this mini PC deal.

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Prime Day docking station deals: Amazon's sale might be over, but you can still save if you're fast

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Prime Day July's Prime Day has ended and these are the last deals on docking stations and USB hubs that I can find

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Price of Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB SSD hits all-time low for Prime Day - shock 30% discount brings it to $385

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Prime Day Samsung’s fastest SSD to date is now available at its lowest price ever

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I've found 9 productivity boosting home office gadgets in the Prime Day deals — and they start from just $1.49

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Updated Comfort, organization, and productivity shouldn’t break the bank - these 9 smart gadgets start at just $1.49 for Amazon Prime Day.

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This huge 24TB Seagate external hard drive has probably never been this cheap on Amazon Prime Day - $260 for a total home backup HDD

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With an impressive 24TB capacity, you can grab a great deal on Seagate's Expansion external hard drive this Prime Day

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Samsung 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD is at its lowest price ever for Prime Day - Sleeper SSD hits rivals 990 Pro and costs only $114 after a 36% discount

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Prime Day Samsung’s fastest SSD to date is now available at its lowest price ever

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This Prime Day SSD deal is off the rails - Crucial 4TB X9 portable SSD for less than $185

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Prime Day Crucial’s mainstream SSD is speedy, affordable and capacious enough for most tasks

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I love a bougie home office and that's why this super Samsung 27-Inch 4K monitor deal is going straight in my Prime Day basket

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Amazon Prime Day Samsung rarely offers such big bargains, especially on recent monitor models

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We tested this Jackery portable power station - and now it has a Prime Day discounted price tag

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Prime Day The Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 gets a 56% discount in Amazon's Prime Day sale

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I found a Prime Day laptop for creators that gets you an Nvidia RTX 5090 with a $450 price cut

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Prime Day Yes, it is a gaming laptop, but creators could be interested in this Alienware 16 Area-51

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Yes really, that toaster is actually a Core i7 mini PC – Save 70% on this $180 Newegg deal that puts Prime Day to shame

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Amazon Prime Day This deal shows once more that it pays to shop around

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I found the cheapest mini PC with 8GB RAM/256GB SSD on Amazon Prime Day and for less than $99 it’s not as bad as you may think

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Amazon Prime Day On a shoestring budget? Then check out this Mini PC that sells for under $100 at Newegg

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Grab a 4TB SSD for 4 cents per gigabyte ahead of Prime Day with external SSDs for under 5 cents per GB

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Beef up your storage capacity with massive, affordable SSDs

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This is Amazon's best-selling laptop for Prime Day and I just can't recommend it - buy these better laptops instead

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Prime Day Even with a 75% discount, this N100-based HP laptop just doesn’t deliver the goods.

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Newegg sells an Intel Mini PC with 256GB SSD for only $98 and no, you don't need to wait for Prime Day

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You can still buy a gift card from Newegg and get $15 off on this mini PC

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The world’s fastest SSD now available for just $229.99 for 2TB, its cheapest price ever but hurry up before stocks vanish ahead of Prime Day

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The SN8100 from SanDisk is the quickest mainstream SSD you can buy right now.

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Best USB flash drive 2025: Quick and compact storage in your pocket

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Buying Guide We tested out best USB sticks and flash drives for speed, storage, and portability.

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Grab an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X CPU for $99.99 with Newegg’s Prime Day busting deals, $40 cheaper than at Amazon and its lowest price ever

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One of the best processor deals ever and it’s all made possible with Newegg’s gift card offer.

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Newegg sells our favorite SSD, Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, for $134.99 in rival Prime Day sales - but you will have to be very quick

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Buy a gift card from Newegg and get $15 off the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB- it’s a no-brainer.

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Best lifetime Cloud Storage deals (May 2026)

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Updated Great if you don’t want to pay a subscription every month for cloud storage.

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Forget about Amazon Prime Day, this $139 mini PC has an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU, a 4K webcam and can power three 4K monitors

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There's no better mini PC when it comes to sheer value for money.

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This $120 mini PC has a unique feature Apple’s Mac Mini M4 simply can’t match - and yes, its part of Amazon’s unofficial early Prime Day sales

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There's no better mini PC when it comes to sheer value for money.

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This 256GB RAM laptop could help you run programs at unbelievably fast speeds using this uncommon type of software

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I've tracked down a laptop with 256GB of RAM - yes RAM, not SSD.

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‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ gets surprise guest appearance: a revolutionary 360TB silica storage media

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“Superman memory crystal” makes unexpected debut in Tom Cruise's Hollywood’s spring blockbuster.

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