Is blurry text something Apple users learn to live with?

Please help me complete my journey from the dark side. I just bought a new MacBook Pro 15" Unibody after ten years of using IMB/Lenovo laptops. The display is incredible - images are bright and crisp - but text display is much worse. It is readable, but definitely not sharp, and it is tiring to read. It ruins the experience enough that I am considering going back to a PC.
My Mac geek friend said the display and settings are fine, but was stunned when I showed a side by side comparison.
Any suggestions as to how to improve text display or do I just learn to live with it?
Thanks.

What fixed the issue for you? Have you returned MacBook?
I have not been able to find a solution for this. Under Windows, I get no font smoothing. All fonts in all applications and most importantly web browsers are sharp.
This forum here uses fonts that are harder for me to read. Under Windows the same forum is pixel sharp. Other websites under Max OS are pixel sharp.
As I am not a graphic designer, I do not care for correct font rendering. It seems that Apple assumes that all users are graphics designers as there is no way to turn off the font smoothing.
Try this:
*defaults write -g AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 128*
This will fix the issue for some applications but not all or for all parts of the applications (menu bars can be blurry).
Yes, Apple users learned to live with it.
*Any solution?*

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