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Recently I have tried the Halo demo on my Dell Laptop and I noticed something interesting. It looks better on there than on my Mac with ATI Radeon 9200. The deal with that is that back in the day ATI didn't support shaders the same way as nvidia did and the game was tailored for nvidia because it was made for the XBox which essentially had a GeForce 3 and 1/2. So when they ported it to the PC\Mac it became biased towards the pixel shader version used in the nvidia GeForce 3 and above. Obviously the intel integrated graphics I have in my laptop is able to run that somehow. This causes the effect that the game looks better on my PC than on my Mac which it should be the other way around because my Mac has a dedicated GPU. Kind of makes me wish Apple had gone with the GeForce 3\4 instead.
