Small screen displays

Why is everything on the screen so SMALL? This Mac is my first one and I don't like it very much. Microsoft gives one an Accessibility screen where you can size the text on the screen. I have searched for this in the book, but nothing comes up. Anyone have a way to cure this, please?

There was to be something more akin to resolution independence, that has never been implemented. Anyone remember Display Postscript?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence
Vector-based graphical user interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-basedgraphical_userinterface
Windows Vista does have more in the way to adjusting the whole screen to a different DPI and to adjust text size. From one place. Clear Text also helps.
And it is universal. I think you have to make more changes in Mac OS and doesn't fully do the same job. If your eyes are getting older or weaker, I think it helps a lot. And do so without any fuzziness.
Listing your Mac, what monitor is attached, would help.
Perhaps you have a laptop like MacBook Pro instead? and not a full tower / workstation (Mac Pro).
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/

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