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

I am a Microsoft 365 expert and these are the Office deals I’d buy with my money for Cyber Monday

By Desire Athow last updated 1 December 24

VPN, Password manager, Identity monitoring, Antivirus and more than a dozen Microsoft applications

How shared hosting can kill your online business

By Desire Athow last updated 30 November 24

Sharing server resources with other users can lead to performance issues which may drive away customers.

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Best customer feedback tool of 2026

By Desire Athow last updated 29 November 24

Updated We list the best customer feedback tools, to make it simple and easy to find out what your customers want and need from your business.

Best KVM Switches deals in 2026

By Desire Athow last updated 28 November 24

Updated We look out for the best Keyboard, Video, Mouse switches so you don’t have to

Best event management solution of 2026

By Desire Athow last updated 27 November 24

Updated We feature the best events management solutions, to make it simple and easy to manage all aspects of an event, from programs to speakers to attendees.

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5 reasons why all businesses need a mini PC

By Desire Athow published 26 November 24

Small in size but mighty in versatility, all hail the mini PC.

Hurry up! I just found the cheapest 24-inch monitor in the market and it even has a 3-year warranty

By Desire Athow published 25 November 24

Dell’s SE2425H is a good allrounder monitor for productivity and casual usage

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Top benefits of managed VPS hosting

By Desire Athow last updated 21 November 24

VPS hosting offers the flexibility of a dedicated server without the high costs.

Microsoft convinced AMD and Nvidia to build a CPU with extraordinary features but it will never go on sale: 4th gen 9V64H has 96 cores and uses InfiniBand technology

By Desire Athow last updated 20 November 24

Build exclusively for Microsoft Azure, this processor is set to deliver jaw-dropping performance

Solidigm launches yet another 123TB SSD after Phison, WD and Samsung with a likely price tag of $14,000

By Desire Athow published 13 November 24

Enterprise SSDs are rapidly becoming the go-to solution to prop up a moribund storage market

The new 2024 Mac Mini is Apple’s IBM PC moment and this tiny computer is the final nail in the desktop PC’s coffin: here’s why

By Desire Athow last updated 12 November 24

The M4 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM and a sub-$500 price tag is unbelievable value for money

Best document shredder of 2024

By Steve Clark last updated 7 November 24

Buying Guide We compare the best document shredders for the home and office - protect your data with these recommended paper shredders.

Don’t wait for Black Friday: Amazon has halved the price of this Intel Core i3 laptop to less than £220

By Desire Athow published 4 November 24

I have never seen a laptop with such a configuration at such a low price.

Vodafone has one of the best Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 business deals on the market right now

By Desire Athow published 1 November 24

Samsung’s best flip foldable ever meets Vodafone’s lifetime service promise

Best customer experience (CX) tool of 2026

By Desire Athow published 28 October 24

Updated We list the best customer experience (CX) tools, to make it simple and easy to collect customer feedback to help provide business insights to improve sales, support, and branding.

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Best microSD cards of 2024: top picks for your micro storage needs

By John Loeffler last updated 15 October 24

Updated Looking for the best microSD cards? We tested the best and these our top picks based on price, reliability and warranty.

AMD releases details of 288GB MI355X accelerator: 80% faster than MI325X, 8TB/s memory bandwidth

By Desire Athow published 10 October 24

Rival to Nvidia Blackwell has some tasty specs, but will it be enough to catch up with Nvidia?

Meet AMD’s new 192-core CPU monster; the EPYC 9965 is its most expensive processor ever at nearly $15,000

By Desire Athow published 10 October 24

At nearly $15,000, this is the most complex microprocessor AMD has ever designed.

This huge 100-inch Hisense TV is almost 50% off at Costco ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days

By Desire Athow published 4 October 24

This massive smart TV comes with an industry-leading five-year warranty.

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Amazon October Prime Day vs Amazon Prime Big Deal Days: A lesson in bad marketing?

By Desire Athow published 3 October 24

Did Amazon do itself a disservice by not going for Amazon October Prime Day?

I used the cheapest foldable smartphone in the world — so should I kick my trusty Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 5G to the curb and replace it with Blackview's Hero 10?

By Desire Athow published 24 September 24

Opinion The Blackview Hero 10 is still too expensive for its own good

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Best lead generation tool of 2026

By Desire Athow last updated 17 September 24

Updated We list the best lead generation tools, to make it simple and easy for you integrate existing marketing or CRM software for better analytics and KPIs. to increase customer base and maximize sales.

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Best small business server of 2024

By John Loeffler last updated 21 August 24

Updated We compare the best small business server models for small and medium businesses.

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Interview: How businesses saw the light on UST projectors

By Desire Athow published 13 August 24

We talk projectors with Tan May Lin, Regional Director of Printer and Visual Products and Regional Director of Brand and Communications, Epson Southeast Asia.

Global Windows outage plunged banks, airlines, and more into chaos – here's everything you need to know

By Marc McLaren last updated 19 July 24

Breaking A software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused a massive outage in Microsoft Windows PCs across the globe. Here's that latest plus everything that happened

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