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

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The 7 best blogging sites of 2025: Build, grow, and monetize your blog

By Owain Williams last updated 5 December 25

Updated We list the best blogging sites, to make it simple and easy to set up a blog, so you can publishing regular thoughts and opinions publicly on the internet.

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Best gifts for home business owners

By Desire Athow published 5 December 25

Largest SSDs and hard drives of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 4 December 25

Updated We tracked down the largest SSD and hard drives to help you find the right storage solution for your needs and budget.

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Don't miss these Cyber Monday printer deals - the sales end soon

By Steve Clark last updated 2 December 25

Hurry! The Cyber Monday deals on printers from Brother, Canon, HP, and Epson end at midnight tonight.

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Last chance to save big on the Cyber Monday mini PC deals still available right now

By Steve Clark last updated 1 December 25

Black Friday 2025 Hurry! I've found best deals on mini PCs for Cyber Monday that you can still buy - for now.

These are the best portable monitors on sale for Cyber Monday

Final call for Cyber Monday portable monitor deals from Lenovo, Asus, Arzopa and more - the sales end at midnight

By Steve Clark last updated 1 December 25

Cyber Monday 2025 I test portable monitors for a living and these are the best-value displays I'd buy for Cyber Monday but you'll need to be quick.

Newegg sells $145 Microsoft 365 Family for $87 in Cyber Monday deal fest

By Desire Athow last updated 1 December 25

Black Friday 2025 Forget about dodgy offers - I found the best Microsoft 365 deal for Cyber Monday, and it even comes with a $15 freebie.

HP sells a $1800 Ryzen 9 laptop for less than $950 — save 47% off RTX 5060 notebook for Cyber Monday

By Desire Athow last updated 1 December 25

Cyber Monday 2025 You can't find a more powerful laptop for less and it even comes with an RTX 5060 GPU

Best Buy sells $450 Core i3 laptop for $199.99 during its Cyber Monday sale

By Desire Athow last updated 1 December 25

Cyber Monday 2025 This is a stunning bargain for anyone looking for a real Core i3 laptop with 8GB of RAM

Save $220 on Samsung's huge superfast 8TB SSD — 9100 Pro with heatsink reaches all-time low of 10 cents per GB

By Desire Athow published 1 December 25

Prime Day Samsung’s fastest SSD with a heatsink to date is now available at its lowest price ever

Best text editor for coding of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 1 December 25

Updated We list the best text editors, to make it simple and easy for programmers to speed up their coding projects on secure software.

These are the best Cyber Monday mini PC deals

Cyber Monday mini PC deals are live, and you can save up to 50% on top-rated products from Apple, Minisforum, Geekom and more

By Steve Clark last updated 1 December 25

Black Friday 2025 mini PCs are highly discounted for Cyber Monday, including some of our top-rated favorites.

Hurry! Save $590 on HP's gorgeous wood PC - RTX 4060, 2TB SSD and Core Ultra 7 265F turns it into a fantastic sub-$1000 powerhouse

By Desire Athow published 30 November 25

Black Friday 2025 This is probably the fastest PC with a RTX 4060 GPU you can get for around $1000

Lenovo sells a Core Ultra 9 285 motherboard combo, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD and Windows 11 Pro for $1069 — get a ridiculously powerful PC for the price of 128GB of RAM

By Desire Athow last updated 30 November 25

Black Friday 2025 This Lenovo is the most powerful PC you can buy for around $1000, almost at cost price.

This $650 MSI RTX 4060 laptop is the cheapest way to get into gaming and content creation and I want to buy it

By Desire Athow last updated 29 November 25

MSI is clearing out this powerful laptop that can do gaming, content creation and much, much more.

From $200 to $430, these are my 4 hand-picked affordable fast laptops worth buying this Black Friday weekend

By Desire Athow published 29 November 25

You don't have to spend big to get a fast laptop and I've selected 4 affordable ones from under $200.

Best 256GB and 128GB RAM laptops in 2025: memory for even the most resource-intensive tasks

By Desire Athow published 29 November 25

Updated Check out the laptops we’ve found boasting an epic 128GB of system memory (and even one with 256GB)

$80 for a 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD: Amazon's best-selling SSD gets a mega 25% price cut for Black Friday

By Desire Athow published 28 November 25

Black Friday 2025 Prices are going up fast, and this amazing Black Friday deal on a 1TB Crucial P310 SSD won't last for long.

$899 for a Core i7-14700 PC with an RTX 4060 GPU? No, it's not a mistake - it's Lenovo's surprise Black Friday clearance sale

By Desire Athow published 28 November 25

Black Friday 2025 Grab this ThinkCentre neo Ultra while you can - as I am sure they won't be around for much longer.

$9.61/Terabyte: 26TB Seagate Expansion external hard drive is lowest-priced storage at $250 just in time for Black Friday

By Desire Athow last updated 28 November 25

Black Friday This 26TB Seagate Desktop Expansion hard drive deal is better than any Black Friday price cut we've seen.

$0.01/Gigabyte: Seagate steals Black Friday thunder with 24TB HDD that costs just $239.99, the cheapest internal storage of 2025

By Desire Athow last updated 28 November 25

This massive 24TB hard drive from Seagate costs less than $10/TB, its lowest price ever

I do not recommend buying this $99 Ryzen 3 mini PC - Get these 4 Black Friday computer bargains instead for less than $170

By Desire Athow published 27 November 25

Black Friday 2025 Check out these affordable mini PCs between $100 and $170

37+ Amazing Amazon Home Office deals starting from $4.73 just in time for Black Friday

By Desire Athow published 27 November 25

Black Friday 2025 I've asked friends, family and colleagues to tell me what their home office bargains were. Here they are.

20 superb 4K monitors under $200 you must check out this Black Friday

By Desire Athow published 27 November 25

Black Friday 2025 Save up to 20% on the world's cheapest 4K monitor at just $95 and grab a 55-inch display for less than $170 this Black Friday.

From 128GB to 2TB, these are the only 12 Black Friday MicroSD deals worth buying from $8.29

By Desire Athow last updated 27 November 25

Black Friday 2025 Shopping for memory card deals this Black Friday? Find your perfect removable storage in my guide

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