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disappointed with 2009 Mac Pro 2.66GHz octo

Great! Seems like there is going to be a Happy End for you afterall!

TinkerTool is quite good from what I hear and allows to customize OSX to quite an extent.
And I am sure you can find the original Windows XP font somewhere on the Internet to download as well. That would be your best choice.
And why should you not be able to re-create the look you want and are used to?


And I wonder if there is a tool for Windows XP that allows me to get the 'blurry' Mac text I am used to. Not just plain font smoothing but font-metric correct letter spacing.
I'd bet there is such a tool too.
 
Microsoft render and anti-alias fonts differently and this varies between Windows versions as well. I did a sample sheet once to compare the same document rendered under XP, Vista, Mac OS etc and the Mac comes out blurry. Each OS version displayed differently, getting better at Vista dare I say it and I would imagine Windows 7 will be better still.

This was very confusing to me as so much is said about how Macs are better for publishing etc. I was in the market for buying a new monitor and trying to convince myself the resolution dot pitch was not going to matter on the Mac.

Interestingly the higher the dot pitch the worse the effect so a 19" 1280 x 1024 or a 27" 1920 x 1200 looks terrible, so much so I returned a a monitor I bought as it was so bad on my Mac... actually the monitor was really bad too!!!

In your case the dot pitch is very low, i.e. dense and shouldn't be that noticeable and I have to say now I have a 22.2" 1920 x 1200 it really isn't bad at all.

Maybe this is something Apple can improve though I am sure many will argue this isn't a problem!
 
As far as setting the machine, do go to Displays/Color/Calibrate and run a calibration.

You can set up a custom one then go back to the default quick if you don't like it.

As far as text smoothing goes, it doesn't change the display until a restart (might be a log out/in cycle also) ...

Crank up the contrast another notch, and then try adjusting the Font Smoothing to both Strong and Light to see how they compare for you after a restart and playing around with the machine a bit.

Also as far as using quite a few apps go to "command +" (changes with some apps) to zoom the screen, sometimes this will put the font size to something which makes the font smoothing less noticeable.
 
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