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 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

HP Laserjet Pro MFP 4302fdw

The fastest colour printer under £400 is this little known HP Laserjet Pro gem

By Desire Athow published

A rare sight in 2024: A wireless printer that does fax and can print in colour at blazing speeds

Microsoft Surface Laptop and Surface Pro devices on a table.

Microsoft, just give up on the whole Windows-on-Arm idea — the fixation on Apple and the Qualcomm dalliance could end up harming the very partners that stood by your side for 40 years

By Desire Athow published

12 years after Windows RT, Microsoft wants to push Arm as an x86 replacement

EliteBoook Ultra G1q

HP embraces Qualcomm for its halo business laptop as industry prepares for third force — but mysterious Windows 11 64 NextGen Premium may well be key to the success of WoA circa 2024

By Desire Athow published

HP embraces new Qualcomm AI PC offerings with two new laptops.

Dell Latitude 7455 laptop front and back

Dell bets big on Qualcomm processors with new stunning flagship business laptop — Latitude 7455 is Dell’s thinnest Latitude to date but will businesses warm up to Windows on Arm?

By Desire Athow published

Intel and AMD have one more rival to worry about as Qualcomm takes on x86 stalwarts, but are the features enough to woo businesses?

Rear of an Apple Xserve server

Apple could revive a legendary product it killed 13 years ago — heir to Xserve to run on M2 Ultra silicon according to reports but no sign of Mac OS X Server yet

By Desire Athow published

Apple throws down the gauntlet at Google and Microsoft in the race toward AI domination

Bluetti AC200L during our testing process

Bluetti AC200L power station review

By Desire Athow published

We went hands-on with the Bluetti AC200L expandable power station - a heavyweight in every sense of the word.

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Best proxy for YouTube of 2025

By Benedict Collins last updated

No more popups saying, "This video is not available in your country.”

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Best Residential Proxy Service Providers of 2025

By Benedict Collins last updated

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the need for secure, reliable, and efficient internet operations is paramount.

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Best datacenter proxies of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated

If you’re looking for efficient proxies to conduct market research, protect your business emails, and prevent phishing attacks or scraping, you should consider datacenter proxies.

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Interview: The truth about business AI, data centers, and why startups need support too

By Desire Athow published

We talk AI, data centers, and startups with John Yue, the CEO and Co-Founder of Inference.ai

A man using a tablet in a tunnel that's being engineered

Getac: Rugged mobile technology is stronger than ever, but we're sticking to computing devices for now

By Desire Athow published

Paul Waddilove, Managing Director, UK & Nordics at Getac reveals what to look for when buying a rugged device and why we won't see a Getac rugged phone any time soon

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How to hide your IP address with a VPN

By Desire Athow last updated

VPN Your IP address reveals a lot about your online activity to nosy ISPs, advertisers, and even the government. With a VPN, however, you can hide it.

Honor MagicBook Pro

One of China’s largest phone makers launched a laptop that will turn heads — Honor’s MagicBook Pro 16 has 32GB RAM by default and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 GPU

By Desire Athow published

There’s another player wanting to grab a share of the premium laptop market

The landing page of Google Answers

Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

By Desire Athow published

Reddit over-indexing on Google, then the $60 million Google AI deal: Is something else brewing?

An photo of the Lenovo ThinkPad T15 Gen 5 opened by an opened Gen 4 model

World’s largest laptop vendor wants you to buy fewer notebooks by allowing users to change batteries and other parts — but a tiny tweak could be a deal breaker

By Desire Athow published

Lenovo is partnering with iFixit to deliver ThinkPad laptops with user-replaceable parts

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The cheapest printer to run or own in 2024

By Desire Athow last updated

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

The MSI Titan GT77, one of the best 128gb ram laptops, against a two tone techradar background

The best 128GB RAM laptop in 2024: memory for even the most resource-intensive tasks

By Desire Athow last updated

Check out the laptops we’ve found boasting an epic 128GB of system memory.

Samsung Galaxy Book Pro on wooden table with screen open and shot from behind

The lightest laptops in 2025: The world’s featherweight notebook champions

By Desire Athow last updated

Looking for a portable computer that weighs less than two pounds, we’ve got all of them here

A Razer Blade 14, one of the most powerful laptops, against a two tone techradar background

The most powerful laptop in 2025: the fastest, speediest notebooks in the world

By Desire Athow last updated

Updated Great for creative pros with the need for speeds, CFD, traders and everyone in between.

GMKTec K8

First Ryzen 8000 mini PC goes on sale with an affordable price tag for an AI PC - and it is surprisingly good value for money

By Desire Athow published

GMK NucBox K8 comes with a Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU but no PCI 5.0 SSD.

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Controversial hard drive vendor breaks new record with cheapest HDD yet

By Desire Athow last updated

12TB for under $90 with full three year warranty? What’s the trick?

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The best security key of 2024: hardware keys for top online protection

By John Loeffler last updated

Updated Secure your online accounts with our picks for the best security keys.

Best Secure Router

Best secure router of 2024

By Collin Probst last updated

Looking for the best secure router? These are our top picks.

Best Business Smartphone

Best business smartphone of 2025

By Collin Probst last updated

Updated Our roundup of the best business smartphone options right now includes all the top picks you can find.

What are the different types of web hosting?

What are the different types of web hosting?

By Desire Athow last updated

We shed more light on the various web hosting alternatives out there.

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