Text too small

[hachre]

You can enable the hidden and broken feature to scale the entire UI by opening Terminal (from Spotlight or the Utilities folder) and entering:

defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor x.x

replace x.x with a factor larger than 1.0 - you should also only add quaters, so for example 1.25 would be the next step...

After you have done that and pressed enter, reboot. Everything will now be larger including the UI but this is still broken. It works but the design and everything falls apart. It really is just a last resort...

If you wanna disable it again enter this into the Terminal:

defaults remove -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor

and reboot again...

 

[gwsat]

If you are reading text in a browser (I don't know if this will work in Mail) if you press cmd-+ it will increase the size of the page. You can also hold control while scrolling to zoom the whole screen.

You beat me too it. Even on my 17 inch MBP, some Web pages have used such small fonts that I will use the -+ keyboard shortcut to increase the size of the font. It's fast and virtually instantaneous. It works in Mail just as it does on Web pages.

 

[darngooddesign]

I was trying to find a good balance, not skew the statistics to my favor. I opted for the low end MBP mostly because that generally is a better deal then the high end 13" MBP. I also opted for the high end MBA because of the larger SSD, but I see your point.

I also tried to keep the configuration at stock. I don't too many people who would be willing to pay for an SSD from apple, when faster/cheaper ones abound.

So basically, if I walked into an apple store and asked for a model how much money out of pocket would that be. In most cases the MBP is cheaper and gives you more expandability.

Well the stock non-BTO Air is 2GB RAM, 1.8GHZ processor and 128GB drive. So if you were trying to do a whats on the shelf comparison the Air's price is considerably lower. Mind you, I'm not trying to defend or persecute the Air, I just wanted to point out a flaw in your price comparison. And I do agree that the 13" MBP gives you far more computer for your money.

 

[mac jones]

The thing i've found about resolution and small text is this:

The bulk of what I read is easily adjustable (email, Web, documents). The menus will be small, but these things are perhaps better off this way, as they are permanently fixed and you know where they are . It's also desirable that these menus take up as little room as possible as they are always visible.
For instance the dock. It has an option to hide (Unfortunately, the hide feature is extremely annoying).

So the high resolution works well, at least for me.

YMMV

 

[iDave]

You can try changing the resolution in System Prefs > Displays

This makes everything look blurry, IMO, so not the best option when there are better ways to adjust text size in applications.