What browser/OS, exactly? The font is... weird (too light?) on Chrome/Win7: http://i.imgur.com/3WMkT.png
Garamond 17px: http://i.imgur.com/ajLUj.png
Also, you will be blown away by the software quality on macs... when I was growing up, all the 'good' software was for windows, but now the situation has completely reversed.