Can you rotate the display/desktop in snow leopard?

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to rotate the display in snow leopard. I looked in display setting but I didn't see the option there, if I there is one. I looked in a couple other places but I didn't see it. Is there something that can possible be downloaded to get this option or, maybe not. Seems like a pretty basic feature I would thing it would be there but then again I've overlooked some pretty simple things in the past, so it might right in front of my face. In case my intent isn't clear what I want to be able to do is physically rotate my rectangle wide screen monitor to a horizontal position so it's width is smaller then it hight, and so I need to also rotate the desktop image to correspond with the position of the monitor. Can anyone help, Thanks.

Answer 1

Up until a few months ago, I was a PC user. Three years or so ago I bought an ipod 80gb, then a Zune 80gb a year later to watch movies on, because I drove a lot, so I would watch TV on the ipod and movies on the Zune. But the Zune was a totally glitchy annoying piece of poo. I ended up selling it on Ebay. I bought an ipod 160gb classic through apple.com and both ipods have worked flawlessly sense I bought them. Then I began to ponder about my PC, and just how glitchy it always was and how complicated everything had to be to get things to work. I had used Mac in the past while at work or different places and always liked what I saw. So last year, I think October, I bought a Mac mini to start off with then If I liked it I was going to upgrade in a year or so to something more beefy. The moral of my story is that, I come to learn that after spending all those years dealing with a PCs and everything being so complicated I sometimes assume that when I need to do something on the Mac, I still think it's going to be a hassle so I over look very simple things which turn out to be the solution. I've done that a few times now.
I can honestly say that I have never really been disappointed with any thing that the mac does and I am always surprised with what it can do and how easy to use it is. I'm waiting for the day when the Mac OS over takes MS as the primary consumer OS so that compatible hardware and software is more readily available at stores. Whether that days comes or not I don't know, but I hope it does.