Just off the top of my head I can't think of being able to do it, not conveniently anyway with a laptop. As already mentioned using 1 screen means the writing will probably be too small and if you set up multiple monitors your just as well off having a desktop (in my view).

I'm probably a little biased though as I'm a gamer.

My setup is dual screens, a 19" monitor and a 24" widescreen.

A story for those of you interested, I actually won the 24" widescreen (worth $550 at the time) playing computer games at a national competition in Sydney which me and the team I played for at the time attended. This was while I was at uni and I don't attend the events anymore but for the space of 2-3 years actually got to travel australia a bit on some weekends and during holidays playing computer games in the capital cities.

I won't hi-jack the thread any further but if anyone is interested i'll post some links to pictures/videos of some of these events in a new thread. It's quite amusing for non-gaming people as most of the events have commentators etc etc.

Anyhow good luck with finding a setup that works Pat!