Macbook Pro -- DUAL or TRIPLE MONITORS

I have a macbook pro laptop
Can I set up my system so my primary monitor is in landscape mode while the secondary displays in portrait mode? That would be very usefull for me.
If the screen is closed.. then dual monitor is fine..
-phillip

AFAIK, you can rotate any display connected to the couputer as long as the video card supports display rotation (which includes all current Macs running 10.4.whatever). Each display you connect will represented by an icon in Display prefs. However, I don't see how you would connect more than one external display to a laptop that only has one external display port. I don't think there are any ExpressCard 34 DVI video cards that could be used to add another display so I would say that you are limited to one external display (I could be wrong on this but if such a device exists, I an not aware of it). If it were possible to connect more than one external, you should be able to rotate the display just like any other.

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