I noticed a Mac feature I sorely miss on XP. Recently, I cranked up my resolutions and cranked down the font sizes. You can see more at one shot and most of my stuff is text. Hmm.. do I even read text or do I just look for word and letter patterns. Anyway, It’s pretty good. The icons are smaller and the interface is much cleaner. The one part that sucks is graphics on a web page. These are typically setup for 1024 X 800. They look much smaller. This isn’t a problem on the Mac. I hit a button on the 7 button MS mouse and it zooms up 75%. Click, look, click, back to normal.
You don’t even think about it. It’s how your eyes normally work. You don’t use 5 ft focus on everything. Near and far things would be blurry. Your eye adjusts its lenses and the shape of the eye to bring things into focus no matter what the distance is. Once you also get used to this on the computer, it’s really hard to let it go, because it’s so natural.
BTW, Vista is supposed to have this capability too, but I couldn’t tell you where it is.