MB Air - 2 external monitors

Hello,
is there any possibility to connect two external monitors (no Apple-Displays) with each 1080p to an MB Air 2013?
Thanks a lot for your support.
br, Timo

In theory.  Note there may be limitations imposed by the GPU, which are in the specs:
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
Any of those limits may be able to be overcome to some extent by devices by:
http://www.matrox.com/
Although I've heard their devices can be slower than machines that have the GPUs to support additional displays.
Message was edited by: a brody - corrected spec page

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