Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is?

[pRICE cUBE]

I want to hook up a monitor to put in a hallway that displays pictures, videos, announcements on a vertical screen. My mind and my searches are not bearing fruit as to what Mac laptop supports a vertical external monitor orientation. Maybe a tower would be cheaper or g4 mac mini? What OS combo and what cards supported this? I am looking for the lowest possible price as this is for a non profit group. I am also open to...doing this one a pc....uuuuugh.

Thanks in advance.

[M A V I C]

PC should be easy as it has to do with drivers.

IIRC, I think it was nvidia that supported it first on Macs. I think my Radeon 9000 did it, or was it my Nvidia 5200... one of those two. Either way, fairly old.

[JoeH]

Their may be earlier models that supported it, but as I recall it first became available on OS X Macs with Radeon 9000 series video. Not sure when the capability was added for nVidia video chip sets. Pretty sure it was supported by 10.3.

[Forrest]

You folks are off by about a decade. The Radius Pivot monitor was available in 1990 with System 6 http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/17/scienc...sides.html

[lost in space]

Apple had a vertical grey-scale monitor for the IIci.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I am pretty sure any cheap laptop with Nvidia graphics will do display rotation. It might take a step up from the onboard graphics. I could stop BestBuy and check if you want.

Edit: I thought the Radius Pivot was out in 1989....

[cbelt3]

Radius Pivot with a Radius card for the SE/30. I had one. It was most cool ! But definitely get the Daystar 68040 card, and max out the RAM at 16MB if you can. There are times I miss that beast. Aldus Pagemaker, and when you get bored or need a break, Ambrosia screen saver games. Good times... goood times.

[pRICE cUBE]

Thanks for the radius suggestions but I think I will need a bit more speed to run video clips.

[M A V I C]

HD video clips? Then your issue is likely going to be finding a computer that's fast enough and not if it will rotate or not.

[pRICE cUBE]

M A V I C wrote:
HD video clips? Then your issue is likely going to be finding a computer that's fast enough and not if it will rotate or not.

Probably not HD clips, probably just 640x480 and set the monitor to a lower res. setting vertically.