Color Profile on a MacBook Pro

Hi all,
I'm a novice user of Aperture and a novice user of Digital image processing as well ... so, as usual in this case, i apologize if everything i'm gonna ask, or a part of it , has been discussed in depth yet ... please point me there
I have a macbook pro and i started post processing my images with aperture in the last 3 weeks. now i've been able to connect a second monitor , a philips 107s, and i hit the common problem of different colors displayed on the 2 monitors ... i spent almost 1 day trying to make the philips match as much as possible the colors of my macbook but even if i think i reached a good matching i can still see a clear difference beetween them.
What i see is that on the macbook every image has *Much More* contrast then on the philips. I like more the way the pictures are show on the macbook then on the external philips ... but now i'm wondering wich one is correct or better i'm wondering how my pictures will appear when printed by a standard internet printing service.
I'm scared that i wasted all my time post-processing on the macbook ...
thanks in advance
Francesco

First of all, you really need to get a hardware profiling device like the EyeOne (or equivalent). That will help you get the colors to match... but even more importantly it will measure the luminance of the screen, you'll probably have to turn down one of the screens to match the other, which will also help them look the same. Because they are pretty different display types I don't think they are ever going to quite look identical though, as they have different abilities.
Now as for printing, what you really need to do there to be safe is to turn on Aperture's soft proofing view for the device you intend to print to. Then you can review your edits and see if the images will have any problems. This is also where a hardware profiler comes in handy because until your display is profiled, you really can't quite rely on even the softproofing view in Aperture (or anything else on the system).

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