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

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.

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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?

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

About 25,000 Blu-ray movies exist; here’s how I could store an entire collection of these shiny coasters in a small suitcase

By Desire Athow Last updated 15 February 25

Tape remains the best value for money when it comes to carrying very, very large amounts of data

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Best scanner of 2025: top scanners for home and office

By Collin Probst Last updated 14 February 25

Updated We review the best scanner for the home and office - and these are our top picks.

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Absurdly powerful PC with 7 liquid-cooled Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs has just gone on sale — and it is in stock

By Desire Athow Published 5 February 25

The BizonTech ZX5500 could well be the fastest PC for creatives ever built.

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NZBGet review: A fast, lightweight, open-source NZB downloader

By Desire Athow Published 5 February 25

NZBGet’s performance and flexibility make it a top choice for all types of users.

DeepSeek on steroids: Cerebras embraces controversial Chinese ChatGPT rival and promises 57x faster inference speeds

By Desire Athow Published 30 January 25

Cerebras brings its massive inference waferscale chip to DeepSeek R1 70B.

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Blu-ray is dying so I believe it's now time for 'obsolete' tape to shine again in the strangest of ironies

By Desire Athow Published 25 January 25

Sony announced that it is shutting down Blu-ray media production forever, so is tape the alternative?

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Forget about a $120 Raspberry Pi 5 barebone, I found a much better mini PC that has 512GB SSD, a far more powerful CPU, Windows 11 Pro and an actual casing

By Wayne Williams Last updated 24 January 25

Think the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is expensive? We found a much better x86 alternative for the same price

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Best business VPN of 2025

By Benedict Collins Last updated 23 January 25

VPN We list the best business VPN services, to help you connect safely and securely online with your business IT network.

Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive and reveals a 60TB model is coming

By Desire Athow Published 21 January 25

Seagate also plans to launch a 100TB HDD in the future.

Best cheap dedicated server deals of 2025

By Desire Athow Last updated 20 January 25

We list the best cheap dedicated server deals currently available, to make it simple and easy for you to upgrade and expand your web hosting portfolio.

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Best free email checker of 2025

By Pawan Singh, Desire Athow Last updated 16 January 25

We list the best free email checkers, to make it simple and easy to clean up your email lists of invalid or broken email addresses.

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