Articles by Desire Athow, Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro | TechRadar

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 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

Intel optane drive on a motherboard

Could RAM replace SSD? Well, not really but this plucky Japanese startup may come very close

By Desire Athow published 4 May 23

The memory-storage pyramid may end up becoming less complicated with super cheap RAM

Canon Pixma G4270

Canon wants to bring down the cost of printing with affordable ink tank printers but isn’t discounting laser printers yet

By Desire Athow published 3 May 23

Six new printers from one of the market leaders target SMB, work-from-home employees.

Nokia XR21

Nokia XR21 could have been the perfect rugged smartphone, if not for these three drawbacks

By Desire Athow published 3 May 23

A high launch price, lack of wireless charging and a USB 2.0 port left us perplexed.

A picture of the Beelink GTR7 Pro

This obscure vendor just unveiled the most powerful mini PC ever - but it won’t be cheap

By Desire Athow published 2 May 23

Beelink GTR7 Pro comes with more tricks in the bag than a magician.

Samsung QN800B 8K TV in living room

I found the cheapest 8K monitor but there’s just a tiny problem

By Desire Athow published 1 May 23

The Samsung QN700B is the cheapest 8K TV right now, it is also the cheapest 8K monitor you can buy.

Hard Drive

Controversial hard drive vendor breaks new record with cheapest HDD yet

By Desire Athow published 29 April 23

14TB for under $120 with full five year warranty? What’s the trick?

Leven SSD

Cheapest SSD title won by obscure brand as price gap with HDD shrinks to its smallest ever

By Desire Athow published 26 April 23

Grab this SATA bargain while you can if you want to refresh a PC or laptop

Photo and graphic designs by Mark Pickavance

Cheapest printer to run or to own (June 2023)

By Desire Athow last updated 2 May 23

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

AMD, Intel, Qualcomm could face their ultimate nemesis in Risc-y move

By Desire Athow published 25 April 23

Dozens of chip makers may have to reassess their relationship with Arm.

Sylvox 55-inch DeckPro 4K | Side

Sylvox 55-inch DeckPro 4K display panel

By Desire Athow published 20 April 23

Destined to live in the outdoors, the Sylvox DeckPro performs inside as well.

Mac Pro

Would Apple launch an AMD-powered Mac Pro in 2023? That would be Epyc

By Desire Athow published 19 April 23

A splash of Epyc and a dash of Radeon Pro to propel Apple back in the game?

Silicon Power 1TB microSD Card

Silicon Power Superior A2 1TB microSD card

By Desire Athow published 19 April 23

High capacity memory cards are becoming more affordable and Silicon Power's latest release could be one of the best.

A picture of a Brainwave FPGA card

Microsoft is working on an AI chip for ChatGPT as it emulates Apple’s perfect plan

By Desire Athow published 18 April 23

If there’s one thing that Apple got spot on, it’s the quasi obsessive approach to the stack.

An optical transceiver from Colorchip

Want 100Gbps internet? Grabbing one of these $5 transceivers could be a good start

By Desire Athow published 18 April 23

Someone is selling thousands of these cheap silicon photonics transceivers on eBay

IDrive e2

iDrive dumps HDD for SSD in wholesale upgrade to object storage service

By Desire Athow published 17 April 23

SSD caching? Who needs it anyway...

Realme GT Neo5 S

$399 1TB smartphones highlight what’s wrong with the PC market

By Desire Athow published 17 April 23

If you can get a smartphone with 16GB RAM and 1TB storage for under $400, then why not a PC?

An Ironwolf hard drive

New Seagate 22TB HDD could become ‘cheapest’ large capacity hard drive by Christmas

By Desire Athow published 14 April 23

It’s already the cheapest large capacity drive on the market, at launch, quite a feat

Apex Storage X21

This 21 SSD PCIe card with a 336TB capacity to cost around $45,000

By Desire Athow published 13 April 23

Pair two of these in RAID-0 to enjoy the ultimate thrill for speed for less than $100K

Website screenshot for Internxt

50% off 10TB of cloud storage for life? Internxt has an unmissable lifetime deal

By Desire Athow published 13 April 23

Get 10TB cloud storage for life for only $499 courtesy of Internxt

AMD Radeon Pro W7900

AMD unveils first graphics cards that can handle 50 million pixels on one port

By Desire Athow published 13 April 23

That’s 24 full HD monitors or six 4K displays, all thanks to DisplayPort 2.1

Google Bard being used on a phone

Exclusive - almost 40% of US adult web users have used a generative AI tool

By Desire Athow published 10 April 23

Exclusive ChatGPT, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Bing Chat, Night Cafe and Bard all prove popular.

ChatGPT hero

Worried about AI and ChatGPT taking your job? You're not alone...

By Desire Athow published 9 April 23

Will AI replace my job becomes an existential question for millions worldwide.

A computer with six screens

Not an ordinary laptop: the world’s most powerful mobile workstation bundles 192 cores, up to 3TB and six monitors

By Desire Athow published 8 April 23

New version of the MediaWorkstation a-X2P is a transportable powerhouse.

Ricoh Portable Monitor

This exciting wireless portable monitor shows what future tablets could look like

By Desire Athow published 7 April 23

Turn every Android tablet into a wireless monitor - now that’s an idea.

ROG Flow Z13-ACRNM, Asus, Tablet

Asus ROG Flow Z13 ACRNM gaming slate is an almost perfect rugged tablet with Windows 11 Pro and stylus

By Desire Athow published 31 March 23

The ROG Flow Z13 runs on Windows 11 Pro and even comes with a stylus.

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