And Britney Spears lipsynchs. If you're griping about the performance aspects of a chipset based on a little bit of background clutter or whether or not a vendor showed off a demo.....? Well, since you're in the demo-bashing mode: I vividly remember all kinds of games in my youth that had way better intro videos and pre-release teasers than the actual game. Shouldn't we go after those jokers first?
I'd rather hear about the specs of the chipset. A demo video simply doesn't do it - whether actually rendered in real time or not doesn't matter to most people. It's gonna come down to whether or not the device has a low response time etc, and most of the time that (in turn) comes down to two other things - the network connection and the memory/storage speed. Chips are already zippy enough. In terms of chip performance I want to know 2 things: Is it gonna last 12 hours or so, and is it gonna fry my hand from using it for 2 hours in a row?
A video of Intel’s CES 2012 Ultrabook demo has appeared on YouTube which seems to suggest that the chip giant faked the DX11 demonstration.
See also: CES 2012: ZDNet’s news and product coverage | CES 2012: CNET’s news and product coverage
Here’s the video, showing Intel’s Mooly Eden, the vice president and general manager of Intel’s PC group, at the keyboard. It appears that a few times during the beginning of the video that the control panel for the popular media player VLC appears, suggesting that this isn’t a game demo but instead playing a movie:
See the control panel? Here’s a still:
Looks like VLC to me!
At one point Eden admits to not playing the game, saying that it’s controlled ‘from backstage.’ Really?
[UPDATE: Intel admits that the game was in fact a video, claiming it was done 'for expediency.']
