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I just purchased my first MacBook Pro, and I absolutely love it, save for one potential deal breaker: The text displays blurry. Instead of stark, black on white text, there is a slight halo of grey (or whatever color the font is in) around every character. It makes the text look nice, but much harder to read. The characters are deliberately out of focus. Apparently this is normal, according to this article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2015823073_ptmrsh06.htm l
Is there a way to fix (or work around) this? As a writer, I cannot type for eight hours a day on a computer that "softens" the text. I have tried adjusting my screen resolution (it's at the highest possible) and turning off "font-smoothing" (it's off). Nothing works. I called Apple support and they couldn't help me either. I can't believe there's not an easy fix for this.

Humor me.
Let's revisit the things you did, because they -should- have fixed the problems.
!) to set screen resolution, you MUST use:
System Preferences > Displays ...
Use of the MenuBar item simply shows the last three chosen, not all available.
And what is the screen resolution you are using now? 13" 15" or 17" display? Do you have the default glossy screen or the enhanced matte display?
2) font smoothing.
System Preferences > Appearance.
I see no OFF. I see a checkbox to default to LCD smoothing, and I see "turn off font smoothing for characters smaller than nn point", where nn is 4 to 12.
How do you have these set?

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Under 10.6.x,
go to the General panel of AppleScript Editor’s Preferences dialog box
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