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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Mac's Aqua uses system-wide anti-aliasing on all its fonts. Windows XP has something similar, but you have to install it/turn it on...but it doesn't seem to work as well. I'm not sure what Vista does.
What you see might have something to do with the display design as well.
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For you folks at home using LCD's and windows XP, right click your desktop, click properties, go to the Appearance tab, click Effects, and under "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" select Clear Type and hit OK a few times...
Also, to anyone considering mac vs. pc, keep in mind that many university programs are created either solely or sooner in windows format. A useful alternative is to just take some time, install and learn Linux, and emulate both systems as needed, with xp or something to dual boot as a backup. Then, you'll feel a sense of accomplishment that you actually know what your computer is doing behind your back, and you can learn a bit about data management and stuff as well. It's an empowering feeling to rewrite your partition table and install something like Gentoo to exactly meet your needs, on a hardware and software level. And you just might learn (out of necessity) how to recover lost files and partitions, just in case (be sure to backup - the words of the wise techie).