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 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

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Best Residential Proxy Service Providers of 2025

By Benedict Collins last updated 8 April 24

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

Best datacenter proxies of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 3 April 24

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 26 March 24

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

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

By Desire Athow published 17 March 24

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

How to hide your IP address with a VPN

By Desire Athow last updated 15 March 24

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.

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

By Mike Moore published 28 February 24

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

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 28 February 24

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

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 27 February 24

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

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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 27 February 24

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 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 22 February 24

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

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The best 128GB RAM laptop in 2025: memory for even the most resource-intensive tasks

By Desire Athow last updated 22 February 24

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

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

By Desire Athow last updated 22 February 24

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

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

By Desire Athow last updated 22 February 24

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

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 20 February 24

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

Controversial hard drive vendor breaks new record with cheapest HDD yet

By Desire Athow last updated 20 February 24

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

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The best security key in 2025: hardware keys for top online protection

By John Loeffler last updated 20 February 24

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

Best secure router of 2025

By Collin Probst last updated 14 February 24

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

One of the fastest external hard drive picks, the Seagate Portable 4TB External Hard Drive

Fastest external hard drive of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 14 February 24

Updated Ramp up your storage capacity with the fastest external hard drive available right now.

Best business smartphone of 2025

By Collin Probst last updated 12 February 24

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?

By Desire Athow last updated 8 February 24

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

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The fastest CPU of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 7 February 24

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

Best Android box of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 6 February 24

Buying Guide We feature the best Android boxes for TV streaming and gaming, from high-end 4K UHD to budget options that won't break the bank.

We’ve got $10 10K HDMI video cables already on sale — so where are these cheap 8K monitors?

By Desire Athow published 4 February 24

After an initial promising start, it seems that 8K, at least on desktop, is just a fad.

Exclusive: Seagate explains why it didn’t sell a 60TB SSD in 2016 — and when it plans to finally release a 60TB HDD to the world

By Desire Athow published 3 February 24

You see, it’s all about priorities and expectations.

Forget about AMD’s fantastic 96-core Threadripper Pro 7995WX — Dollar for dollar, its little-known 192-thread sibling is a far, far better deal

By Desire Athow published 31 January 24

AMD slashed the price of the EPYC 9654 by almost 67 percent and nobody really knows why

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