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Intel fakes ‘live’ Ultrabook demo, mulls massive advertising campaign to peddle ‘MacBook Air killers’

“It looks like chip giant Intel has gone too far by attempting to have prospective buyers sold on Ultrabooks. Bright Side of News* editor Anshel Sag caught Intel’s Mooley Eden cheating during yesterday’s press conference at the CES show in Las Vegas. Mooley can be seen in the below video fake-driving a commonplace racing game by Codemasters called F1 2011,” Christian Zibreg reports for 9to5Mac.

“In reality, he simply played back a video file using VLC media player and proceeded to fool the audience into believing they were witnessing a live demonstration of the graphical capabilities of the Ivy Bridge platform that powers forthcoming Ultrabook notebooks,” Zibreg reports. “This prompted the author to dub the unbelievable move a display as ‘a gross distrust of their own demo.'”

Zibreg reports, “Intel promised a massive advertising campaign to help push MacBook Air-like notebooks that have been struggling to steal the limelight of Apple’s machine.”

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]

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