It's true that Mac has different font rendering, but this is not that.
This article is about "faux bold", which is intentionally faking a bolder text. This goes way beyond any antialiasing preferences.
You're describing Mac-style antialiasing, which has nothing to do with this article.
(Also your description of thin fonts isn't even correct. Thin fonts, if rendered mathematically correctly e.g. converted to curves in Photoshop, are too thin to be legibile at small sizes period. Mac compensates by giving heaviler antialiasing, while Windows compensates with hinting that forces strokes to be a full pixel wide. They look different, but there's no widespread problem of fonts being too thin on Windows.)
This article is about "faux bold", which is intentionally faking a bolder text. This goes way beyond any antialiasing preferences.
You're describing Mac-style antialiasing, which has nothing to do with this article.
(Also your description of thin fonts isn't even correct. Thin fonts, if rendered mathematically correctly e.g. converted to curves in Photoshop, are too thin to be legibile at small sizes period. Mac compensates by giving heaviler antialiasing, while Windows compensates with hinting that forces strokes to be a full pixel wide. They look different, but there's no widespread problem of fonts being too thin on Windows.)