Macbook pro 2011 to dual ADC 20" cinema displays

Ok here it goes. I made the jump from old motorola G5 to Macbook Pro 2011 17". Is there a way to connect my old ADC displays to macbook for clamshell use? It would really make long form stuff easier to endure... FCP, Motion builds etc. New Mac rocks and the idea I can edit on location was too good to pass up with new specs. Thanx
in advance

I think the video port only supports one single external display, but you can use the laptop display simultaneously when the lid is open.
For clamshell mode, like if you wanted to use a HengeDock, you might be able to use one of these Matrox DualHead2Go products.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/press/releases/2010/dualhead2go_dp/triplehead2 go_dp/mac_notebooks_desktops/
Your G5 maybe had one ADC and one DVI output? So you were likely using one DVI-to-ADC adapter, either the Apple or Dr Bott version. With one of the DualHead2Go dual DVI outputs, you would need two of the DVI-to-ADC adapters. It should work, but you may be limited as to the max resolution, depending on the size and native resolution of the monitors, the video output of the MacBookPro through the Matrox device might not be able to drive both of them at their max native resoution, check the specs and ask Matrox tech support for info, it might work for you.

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Mac OSX 10.8.2
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro10,1
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Processor Speed:          2.6 GHz
Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          4
L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          6 MB
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VRAM (Total):          512 MB
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