Palette & Panel (UI) size adjustment for High DPI display?

Hello,
I just got a nice new Dell XPS laptop with a super high resolution screen (3200x1800), similar to Apple's retina display. I thought it would be great for editing photos on the go. Unfortunately all the user interface elements of Light Room (panels, palettes, menus, etc.) are tiny. They're so small I can barely see them. Is it possible to adjust their size? The only solution I've found is to change the display settings to reduce the resolution to that of a normal monitor, which defeats the purpose. Please tell me their is a way to fix this.
I'm running Lightroom 4.4 on Windos 8. Would be glad to upgrade to LR 5 if I knew that would fix it.
Thanks,
Paul

You will probably get better feedback in the forum for the picture program you are using... what is that program? (Photoshop?)

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