How do I rotate MacBook Pro screen 90/180 degrees?

I have Mac OS X 10.4.11. Is it even possible?

I believe all Macbook Pros are capable of rotating their internal display. Tiger may allow you to do that using System Preferences: Option-click on the Displays pane in System Preferences and a display rotation drop down box may appear.
If that does not work, the Unix utility fb-rotate will. It is available here:
http://modbookish.lefora.com/2010/06/29/a-unix-utility-to-change-the-primary-dis play-on-os/
You probably have to re-compile the source (fb-rotate.c) for Tiger, but there are instructions on how to do that, and it is easy.

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-- v1.1.20060301 (by Conrad Albrecht-Buehler) updated to handle displays with the same name.
-- v2.0 (by hypert) updated to simply toggle between two rotations
(* Set rotationA and rotationB to your two main rotation values.
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-- LCDs with this script.
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    end tell
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on setDisplay(thisDisplay)
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                                    end if
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                end tell
            end tell
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                end tell
            end if
        end tell
    end tell
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-- Prompt for change:
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Yup, my laptop does support screen rotation, and I do use it relatively often. It requires holding down ⌘+⌥ when clicking "Displays" in System Preferences. This is possible to instigate in Applescript using "key down {option, command}" and "key up {option, command}".
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