Running 2 monitors from MBP

Sorry if this has come up before--I'm not very good at searches but I did have a go at it.
I want to run 2 relatively new Samsung 23" monitors from my MBP with the internal monitor off. How easy/hard is this going to be? What parts will I need?
Thanks

Hi Justin,
the Matrox Dualhead http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/ seems to be capable of doing this http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/faq/#3
Regards
Stefan

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