In the weekly review of the past seven days, the focus today is week 23, 2022. 67 news and notes and 6 tests were published. On Friday afternoon, a message for the everyday life of potentially many people threw the previous leader off the throne.
Not a cashless Amazon, but Kaufland
The food retailer Kaufland is digitizing the shopping experience in more than 50 branches with the help of its own scanner or the Kaufland app on the smartphone. The biggest advantage: The solution called “K-Scan” eliminates the hassle of emptying the trolley just to refill it directly after the checkout.
K-Scan consists of a handheld scanner that customers registered for the Kaufland Card can take at the entrance to the supermarket to scan the goods themselves when they are placed in the trolley. To keep your hands free, there is a holder for the scanner on the shopping trolley. As an alternative to the scanner, you can also use your own smartphone for the process by selecting the K-Scan menu item in the Kaufland app.
Apple's new SoC first for expensive MacBook Air
Apple's new M2 chip is a smooth evolution of the previous M1. Thanks to optimized production, the larger chip should deliver more power with the same consumption, especially under high load on multiple cores. Apple has significantly improved the memory interface of the M2: Not only will there be a choice between 8, 16 and 24 GB (instead of the previous 8 and 16 GB), the memory shared by the CPU and GPU is also 100 GB/s connected 50 percent faster.
Most read news & Notes
- 1 Kaufland K-Scan The shopping cart remains 100% full at the checkout
- 2 Apple M2 More performance with the same Consumption 48%
- 3 iOS 16 CarPlay becomes car operating system 32%
- 4 Microsoft Rewards Redeeming may result in account suspension 31%
- 5 Radeon RX 7000 & MI300 RDNA 3 comes with chiplets, but only CDNA 3 stacks them 29%
- 6 Orange Pi 800 keyboard computer rivals Raspberry Pi 400 24%
- 7 Sun Valley 2 Windows 11 22H2 previewed 23%
- 8 Sony PlayStation 5 production has apparently slowed down 23%
In the test: case in front of SSD
As a newcomer, you also have to draw attention to yourself on the housing market. The Geometric Future Model 8 succeeds in doing just that. It combines a dignified design with striking accents, including a model variant with decorative leather strips. A chimney layout rotated by 90° is always offered. However, there are deductions in the test in the B grade.
Despite the small Innogrit IG5220 controller with only four channels and no DRAM cache, the Adata XPG Legend 840 delivers impressive performance in the test. A new record is even set for random reading. We also like the fact that the SSD keeps a cool head and is cheap in its class.
Most-read reviews & Reports
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Test
Geometric Future Model 8 Inside is the GPU, outside is leather
126 Comments Jan Wichmann 100%
Review
Adata XPG Legend 840 The midget controller with PCIe 4.0 is amazing
40 Comments Michael Günsch 78% < /li>
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Report
DDR5 memory bandwidths, latencies and latency times at a glance
90 comments Sven Bauduin 70%
Test
ASRock DeskMeet B660 20 cm graphics cards fit into the Mini-ITX-DeskMini
79 Comments Volker Rißka 69%
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Report
Duel of the FIFA or Pro Evolution game series? Street Fighter or Tekken?
139 Comments Sven Bauduin 53%
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Retro
Im Test 15 years ago Halo 2 was a flop on the PC despite Vista
72 Comments Robert McHardy 50%
Weekly outlook
In the coming week, two input devices will be tested in the editorial office, including the Logitech MX Mechanical Mini.
With this reading material in your luggage, the editors wish you a relaxing Sunday!