Is there a way to make all fonts larger on the Macbook Air 13 or 11?

Question

Instead of getting a Macbook Pro 13 or 15, I was thinking of getting the Macbook Air 13 or 11 inch, but checking the machines at Apple store, it turns out the density of pixels of the screen of the Macbook Air 11 or 13 is larger, so the font appears more "dense", and therefore smaller.

It turns out that the Macbook Pro 13 has smaller pixel density, and the 15 inch model has even smaller density, so they can have larger fonts, without needing to squint the eyes. The 17 inch model also has high font density as well.

If I want to get the Macbook Air 13, is there a way under Lion to make all the fonts larger (the webpage, the menu bar, all apps), without changing the resolution of the machine to something not the native resolution? (native resolution is optimal on each machine)

Answer 1

The short answer is without deep hacking, no, you cannot make fonts larger in all applications and in the menu bar but not change from the native resolution.

Many applications do have zoom features (including Safari, Finder, Address Book, Mail, etc.), but the way to make text larger in each app is, unfortunately, different from app to app.