Firstly, I seem to have better eyesight than many folk at work, who squint at my screen and marvel at how i can read it at all.
But also, high res doesn't necessarily mean small type. At least, it sort-of-doesn't. It seems to be all about PPI. XP allows you to change your PPI so you can change system font sizes and toolbar heights etc, so that with a very high res screen you can end up with normal size text but writ very smooth. (XP's implementation is a halfway house to full vector screen rendering I think, which Longhorn is purported to have, although it may call it something else). With OSX I believe you're stuck with 72ppi although I heard mutterings about 100ppi as well. In fact there's a fascinating rant that explains it better than I ever could here.
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