Calibrate my PC's monitor to match my MBP's screen?

I've been getting more serious with my photography and My 13" MBP is starting to struggle, and image editing is becoming a pain.

I have a powerful PC desktop but I just can't do any image processing on there because of the god awful color inaccuracy. Has anyone calibrated a monitor to match the color space portrayed by the MBP's screen? If so how did you do it?

Thanks in advance.

 

many times, I use an AGFA screen calibration hardware/software and just adjust levels through the ATI or Nvidia control panels.

I would need to know what you use for hardware and software though feel free to PM me though as they frown about desktop discussions here on NBR

 

If you're serious, you'll need to get a hardware calibrator (Huey or Spyder) so that the LCD and monitor are calibrated to the same standard (i.e. 6500K) - entry level ones generally start at $75-100. My iMac default profile was already near standard, but my Macbook shifted more in order to be near each other for my work with PSElements.

The other problem, if you're getting toward serious photography, is that colors on a monitor (EVEN when it's calibrated) often are not the same as what appears on the printed page; i.e. shifts in the green or blue tones on print compared to screen. So it may not make any difference whether your monitor is calibrated or not if the color space being used by your printer profile is not matched to the monitor space. There are ways to get around this problem too and fix it, but you'll have to stroll around Google and photography websites because it depends on your printer model.

Finally, trying to calibrate two different monitors by eye alone is near impossible - there are too many variables between the gamma, hue, saturation, and color space for it to be truly accurate.