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

Fastest SSD of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 14 April 25

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

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 14 April 25

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

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

By Desire Athow published 8 April 25

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

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

By Mike Moore last updated 1 April 25

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

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

By Desire Athow published 1 April 25

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 27 March 25

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

I analyzed 25 AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs and the Ryzen 9 9900X is the best of them all right now: Here’s why

By Desire Athow published 25 March 25

The Ryzen 9 9900X is the best value for money Zen 5 CPU from AMD's stable for a wide variety of workloads

Nvidia GTC 2025 - all the news you might have missed

By Mike Moore last updated 20 March 25

Nvidia GTC 2025 is a wrap - here's what we saw at Jensen Huang's keynote, and everything else.

Nvidia is dreaming of trillion-dollar datacentres with millions of GPUs and I can't wait to live in the Omniverse

By Desire Athow published 19 March 25

Nvidia has ambitions to fashion the world’s factories of tomorrow.

Nvidia launches its fastest GPU ever: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition is an enhanced version of the RTX 5090 with more of everything

By Desire Athow published 18 March 25

Nvidia launched 12 new professional GPUs at GTC.

Nvidia’s DGX Station brings 800Gbps LAN, the most powerful chip ever launched in a desktop workstation PC

By Desire Athow published 18 March 25

Nvidia unveils a 20 PFlops supercomputer

Eurocom's Raptor X18 laptop may have inadvertently broken a few world records with 256GB of RAM and 32GB SSD storage

By Desire Athow last updated 14 March 25

The Raptor X18 is the most powerful notebook you can buy

I compared Apple's Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 10 Windows workstations and I am truly shocked by what I found

By Desire Athow published 12 March 25

I've pitted the Mac Studio M3 Ultra against its biggest Windows rivals

Ryzen CPUs are the cheapest Zen 5 cores you can buy, but I was surprised to see this 192-core AMD CPUs on the value leaderboard

By Desire Athow last updated 10 March 25

I've analyzed dozens of AMD CPUs, from 8-core to 192-core models.

The Fira Barcelona event center open for MWC

MWC 2025 — all the biggest B2B news and announcements from Mobile World Congress

By Benedict Collins last updated 6 March 25

TechRadar Pro was live at MWC 2025 - here's all the biggest news and updates we saw at the show.

MWC 2024 — all the B2B news and announcements from Mobile World Congress

By Mike Moore last updated 5 March 25

TechRadar Pro was at MWC 2024 - here's all the biggest news we saw.

The price of AMD’s most powerful processor ever has been slashed by almost half and I can't understand why

By Desire Athow published 1 March 25

AMD's most powerful and expensive CPU is being discounted but why?

SABnzbd review: A powerful, user-friendly, open-source NZB downloader

By Desire Athow published 26 February 25

A look into one of the most popular Usenet clients

NZBGet vs. SABnzbd: Which is the best NZB downloader?

By Desire Athow published 26 February 25

Choosing between the two best NZB downloaders

A picture of the grando comino workstation without the lid, exposing eight GPUs

Want a PC with 8 (yes, 8) AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPUs? Here’s one and OMG, you could even add Intel Arc GPUs

By Desire Athow published 26 February 25

The Comino Grando is the fastest PC for creatives ever built.

A network switch with dark pink cables attached

Best network switch of 2025: Top picks for boosting Wi-Fi speeds with wired connections

By Desire Athow last updated 19 February 25

Updated Add more wired connections with our top picks for the best network switches.

One of the fastest PC and workstations, the Mac Studio, on a white rug

Fastest PCs and workstations of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 19 February 25

Updated We compare the fastest PCs and workstations by performance, need, and cost - and these machines we recommend.

‘Browsers cannot stay unprotected’ - NordLayer unveils its holistic cybersecurity-focused browser

By Desire Athow published 19 February 25

A new business-based browser is coming to the market from NordLayer.

Comino has workstation PCs with 8, yes 8 Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs, for less than $60,000 - but that’s not the best news

By Desire Athow published 17 February 25

The Comino Grando is the fastest PC for creatives ever built.

Illustration of a CPU with beams emerging from it

The fastest CPU of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 15 February 25

Updated The fastest CPUs out there so you can get the best performance for your needs

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