Rotate display for portrait mode?

I'd like to rotate the display orientation on my 15" MBP so that I can read documents in portrait mode while holding the laptop sideways. I found some tips instructing me to hold the option key down while selecting the displays pane in system preferences but that doesn't seem to work.
I found SMSRotateD which is a little demo that rotates the display using the sudden motion sensor:
http://www.osxbook.com/software/sms/smsrotated/
It does successfully rotate the display 90 degrees, but it works erratically and won't stay in one orientation for long. I'd rather do this without the SMS. Can anyone tell me how?

I do though hesitate to rotate the whole body of the machine. Functioning vertically may not be the best of things to do. At least back 10 years ago, and I don't know if it is true now, shifting the drive from the position it was formatted in relative to gravity to a different one for use without reformatting it can shorten the length of the hard drive. This was the case with the drives on some PowerMac 6500s which were formatted vertically and placed horizontally elsewhere.
Whether or not you can do that with notebook drives regularly, remains to be seen. I'd say it would be better to get an external display that supports the rotation.

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I do though hesitate to rotate the whole body of the machine. Functioning vertically may not be the best of things to do. At least back 10 years ago, and I don't know if it is true now, shifting the drive from the position it was formatted in relative to gravity to a different one for use without reformatting it can shorten the length of the hard drive. This was the case with the drives on some PowerMac 6500s which were formatted vertically and placed horizontally elsewhere.
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Hello guys!
I've met a problem about resolution aspect ratio on my Mac. Please help.
Mac: Mac Book Air 2013-Mid (11 inches, Core i5, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD)
OS: Mavericks (10.9.3)
Monitor: GeChic On-Lap 1302 for Mac (using MiniDisplayPort cable.)
Phenomenon:
In monitor setting screen, I rotated 270 or 90 degrees to use this monitor as portrait mode. But it displays weird as the photo below.
My MBA tries to display it as landscape mode, and there are big black dead space on upper and lower.
I just want it to display portrait mode without the dead spaces.
I tried some things so far as below to research.
1) SMC reset == No effect
2) Cram shell mode (use this external monitor as primary and disable Mac's own monitor) == Displays Nice without dead space. (But it can't be a solution because I need to use Mac's own monitor.)
3) In Apple store, use Mountain Lion with network boot == Displays Nice as Dual monitor.
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7) In "Mission Control" setting screen, check off "Displays have separate Spaces" == No effect.
Today, I brought it to Apple store and discussed with Apple technician, but we couldn't solve this issue at last.
Are there anyone who met same problem? and solved? If so, please give any advices. Anything (such like Command line or any other thing) is OK.
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I do though hesitate to rotate the whole body of the machine. Functioning vertically may not be the best of things to do. At least back 10 years ago, and I don't know if it is true now, shifting the drive from the position it was formatted in relative to gravity to a different one for use without reformatting it can shorten the length of the hard drive. This was the case with the drives on some PowerMac 6500s which were formatted vertically and placed horizontally elsewhere.
Whether or not you can do that with notebook drives regularly, remains to be seen. I'd say it would be better to get an external display that supports the rotation.

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Click Rotation - Click 90 degrees rotation for PORTRAIT MODE.
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I currently have a Samsung 204T LCD monitor (DVI) which allows rotating the display into portrait mode.
I know that OS X supports using an external monitor to extend or mirror the desktop. Can an external monitor be configured for operating in portrait mode? I would expect that this requires the video driver to rotate the display before sending it to the monitor.

I will leave this answer to my original question.
I called Apple and was completely disappointed with their answer. They indicated that they would not answer such a question, since they deemed it to be "outside of the scope of Apple support" since my question was deemed "not a consumer-oriented
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When in portrait mode (90 degrees rotation selected in the display preferences), graphics are choppy. I can notice it in games (Zen Pinball 2, Pinball Arcade) and even when scrolling pages in Chrome. Games are not playable at all, flickering and jitter when scrolling in Chrome is annoying.
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I'm now using a 17 in. G4 with an NEC 1980SX external that rotates.
The display settings in my Tiger System Preferences allow me to rotate the display 90 degrees which makes working on 11x17 documents much easier.
I want the new 17 in MacBook pro but no support for portrait mode is a bummer.

For clarity on the external portrait display issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=9955
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Yeah, I have clarity...that's my post.
I now need someone to prove it by actually trying it because I also need portrait support.
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