[Greg Golding]

Yes, you can drive two external monitors. You don’t need two video cards. My suggestion would be to close the lid on the MacBook Pro if you plan on doing two external monitors so that you don’t bog down your graphics card too bad by driving three monitors. As long as you are connected to power, have a keyboard plugged in, and have at least one external monitor plugged in, you can close the lid on your MacBook Pro without it going to sleep.

In order to drive two external monitors you have two options that I know of.

(1) The expensive option. Get two “Thunderbolt” monitors. Not Mini-Display Port, but Thunderbolt. You can daisy chain the two monitors with Thunderbolt cables and then put a hard drive at the end. This would be pretty pricey.

(2) The cheap option. You use a USB display adapter to drive one monitor, and then use the Mini-Display Port for the second monitor. I actually have this on a MacBook Air and it works great. The MacBook Air doesn’t even have a dedicated graphics card and it is able to drive two external monitors.

Good luck!