Display settings of new PB not satisfactory

Today I received the new 15" PB. I am not satisfied with the higher resolution. In the 1440 x 960 resolution everything looks crisp but unfortunately it is too small for me now. I am getting a headache reading the small letters (well I'm not 20 anymore). I was hoping that the old resolution of 1280 x 854 would still be an option. However it is not. I can choose between 1280 x 800 (which does not fill the entire screen) or a stretched version of 1280 x 800 (which is distorted). In addition only the highest resolution looks crisp. The two lower resolutions look very fuzzy similar to one of these old PC VGA screens. I am disappointed and do not know what to do. "HD" does not seem to be for me. Any solution?

After playing with the settings I found an acceptable solution. Almost all applications I am using allow to change the settings in font sizes. Browers even allow to set a minimum font size to be displayed. I have now changed all these font sizes and it almost looks like the old computer. Only the system fonts for the pulldown menus I could not change. Somebody determined that in that case writing in widgets would be partially outside the widgets. So overall an acceptable solution. However I still cannot understand why all lower resolutions look so crappy.
In my case the screen is as bright as in my old 1GHz PB and the colors are vivid. No complaints there.

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