Twin Monitors plugged in to an Apple Mac Laptop

I want to buy an iBook or a PowerBook notebook / laptop but before I do I want to know if I can do the following;
1. Plug two extra flat screen monitors via a splitter into the single monitor socket in the notebook / laptop.
I know it can be done on non Apple Mac products using a Matrox DualHead2Go external multi-display upgrade but it needs either MS Windows XP or Windows 2000, then I'm guessing it might not be possible on an Apple Mac.
Please advise ASAP as I'm ready to buy.
Regards,
DENBO.
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Out of the box, the iBook G4 can only mirror what's on the built-in display to a single VGA display connected with the special VGA adapter that comes with the iBook. But, the iBook's video system is not listed on Matrox's own compatibility page here. In fact, the video system in the PowerBooks isn't listed either. Also this hardware requires software drivers to be installed on the computer and they haven't written a Mac version. So, I don't think you're going to be able to use this device with a Mac.
-Doug

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