10/03/09: I've recently become a Mac user, and while I love my aluminum MacBook Pro, the font rendering on the LCD screen and my external monitor looked questionable (FYI, I come from the Linux world, not Windows, and I never thought that I'd say this, but Ubuntu font rendering looks much better on my monitors)
If you're curious, you can google a lot of information on the Mac and Windows font rendering approaches, but if your eyes are simply unhappy with the way text looks, here are some things could make a difference.
Open the terminal window, and enter:
defaults -currentHost
write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int
x ...replace
x with a number
0 - 3. Here is the explanation:
- 0 – is the setting for CRT monitors
- 1 – is the setting for Light (worked best for my setup)
- 2 – is the setting for Medium
- 3 – is the setting for Strong
After you execute above command, you'll need to log out and back in. If you don't like the new settings, you can try a different one, or to reset back to default, execute:
defaults -currentHost
delete -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing
