Does OS X support two monitors?

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My fiancee has a MacBook Pro and I know it has a video out to hook up an external monitor but if you hook up an external monitor can you view both that and the laptop's LCD at the same time.
What I mean is not for the exact same items but as an example she does stock market analysis for a living. She has many screens open at a time monitoring different things in the market and wondered if there's any way she can use a monitor for that use, to have different displays on each. Of course I'm not sure how you'd control it with the mouse/keyboard but is there anything like this that OS X does?
 
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Yes, OS X supports screen spanning. I use it all the time with my PowerBook and your MBP will do the same.
 
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Push F7 (or fn + F7) to switch between mirroring and spanning.

More controls are available in the Displays section of System Preferences.
 

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