Proper Video output signal from FCPX for Color correction

I have bene color grading/correcting on my Macbook Pro, but I recently found out (should have known better) that the colors are not very accurate or even universal so I am really correcting colors in the dark.
I want to get a proper device that I can get a REAL UNIVERSAL VIDEO SIGNAL out form my macbook pro to a monitor. Right now it is a computer signal.
I heard of the Matrox box, but I am not sure how it works.
Really looking for something inexpensive to do some basic correct color grading.
Anyone can help me steer in the right direction?
Do I need a new seperate monitor, or justa device to get the correct video signal?
Thanks

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