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

By Desire Athow Last updated

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Last updated

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

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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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Last updated

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

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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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

By Desire Athow Published

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

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New 30TB tape is a welcome hold-my-beer moment for Petabyte-scale storage as Seagate and Western Digital smash HDD capacity barrier

By Desire Athow Published

‘When I want to do it, how I want to do it’ seems to be LTO’s motto as 10th generation tape goes live with a whimper

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I've reviewed dozens of mini PCs, and these are my 7 picks for Memorial Day

By Desire Athow Published

There are some fantastic Memorial Day deals on some great mini PCs.

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Mailbox.org secure email review

By Desire Athow Last updated

Discover the power of one of the world’s leading secure email service providers in our Mailbox.org review.

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How to buy a domain name for your website: a step-by-step guide

By Desire Athow Last updated

UPDATED This step-by-step guide will show you exactly how to buy and register a domain name for your website.

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Fastest external SSD of 2025

By Desire Athow Last updated

Updated We've tested the fastest external SSDs for speedy storage expansion.

One of the fastest external hard drive picks, the Seagate Portable 4TB External Hard Drive

Fastest external hard drive of 2025

By Desire Athow Last updated

Updated We put the fastest external HDDs to the test - perfect for boosting performance and storage capacity

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Fastest SSD of 2025

By Desire Athow Last updated

We benchmarked the fastest solid-state drives for boosting laptop boot times and overall performance.

OWC Mercury Pro LTO

US Government says it will save $1m/year by getting rid of magnetic tape – so is there still a place for tape in 2025?

By Desire Athow Last updated

DOGE X post has attracted hundreds of comments, from proponents and opponents of tape.

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Huawei's journey may be the blueprint for a post-Trump, non-US centric technology world

By Desire Athow Published

What would happen if the biggest Chinese companies followed Huawei’s footsteps?

World Backup Day 2025

World Backup Day 2025: All the news, updates and advice from our experts

By Mike Moore Last updated

We rounded up all the best news, advice and more for World Backup Day 2025.

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Block YouTube ads on your PC or smartphone for free in just 30 seconds and get Amazon gift cards

By Desire Athow Published

Microsoft Edge has a little-known ‘feature’ that allows you to earn money and block YouTube ads and yes, it's 100% free and legal.

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition

The most expensive Nvidia Blackwell offering is getting a huge price cut - but I'm disappointed some other cards aren't seeing the same

By Desire Athow Last updated

Nvidia’s top of the range graphics card is perfect for visualization workloads - if you can afford it.

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