17" running at 1920x1200

my old eyes dont work well anymore i am a first time mac user and just purchased my first mac which is a macbook pro 17 looking for recommendation, external monitor .. lower resolution .. software options..
please be kind i have been around technology a very long time but learning all over again with the apple

Lowering the resolution is an option. I usually would not advise this because running at anything but the native resolution will result in a loss of quality (blurriness). However this may or may not be an issue for you depending on how bad your eyes are.
External monitor is also an option but if you bought a laptop it would suggest that you did not really want to be tied to a desk all the time. This leaves you with the same problem when you are away from the monitor.
I think the best option for you, if it is available, would be to return the purchase and instead get a 15" MacBook Pro. The extra pixels on the 17" screen compared to the 15" are for real estate and not screen quality, and if you were to use a 15" MacBook Pro instead, everything will be significantly larger. It would also appear clearer than if you ran 1440x900 on a screen without native 1440x900 resolution. For this reason be sure to get the 15" 1440x900 and not the high-res option.

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(905)707-1880 ext 119
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I know this topic have been asked a lot of times by different people who faced the issue in different way. However, i am unable to find an absolute solution to the problem i am facing currently.
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More and more frustrated every day, guess it shows how much I love HP at this point!!
(And the jerk at HP who gave me this cpu with the speaker setting deep within the software turned off just isn't funny! No not the mute and not the volume but the actual speaker on and off that controls the jacks was set to off in the software....that took a week to find and fix. And of course, it wasn't on their screen, so HP tech support couldn't help! It was only by accident I found that setting!)   So far I think I'm doing quite well for a Mac person.
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