Turning off laptop display to use Cinema display only

Is there a way to turn off my 12 incher's display so that I'm only using my 20-in. Cinema display?
There's such a difference in color and contrast, the laptop looks like $^@#$!, and I really don't need the extra space because of the wide-screen Cinema disp.

I don't believe you can just turn it off, but if you hook everything up and then close the display it will sleep. Then if you are using external keyboard and mouse you just click or hit a button and it will come up with just the one display (this is what I do). If you don't have external keyboard and mouse I don't believe you can do anything.

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