Fuzzy CRT display

Hi
I'm a switcher from Windows and this is my first MAC - why is the screen display so fuzzy?
Also where's the end key - and why the @ iin such a funny place?
Thanks
PS - looked at some posts and seems it may be to do with anti-aliasing - is it worth switching this off? how? it really is very fuzzy

Then I've got a feeling that a little fuzziness is
the least of your problems with that mini. The G4's
are infamous for having bad video output that doesn't
meet VESA specs. This article should bring you up to
speed. If you need more information just let us
know.
http://www.modmini.com/mod/howto/dimvideo.php
Its so bad now I'm going to have to get rid of it (the MAC) - I've worked with computers for over 20 years and never seen such a phenomenon - even on really dirt cheap PCs. Its like looking through a layer of grease or dust on the screen. I might just try and take it to my brothers house and see it on his TFT.
I do like the design of the MAC mini (quiet, small etc) - you can't get a lifstyle windows PC like that for the same money - and OSX obviously has its UNIX pedigree.
The other thing I'd say is that maybe because the MAC community is smaller - the level of expertise available is less - I'm trying to share my MAC connnection and I don't seem to be able to do it - if I had a similar problem on Windows, after posting a question I'd be inundated with fixes.
Looks like MAC 0 - Windows 1

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