Professional Photo Screen Displays

Ex Professional photographer, from film era, back into digital photography.
My 2-year-old MacBook screen's quality is dwarfed by current screen technology. Apple seems to either sell displays combined with CPUs or very expensive stand-alone screens for "cinema".
What do professional photographers use today if they use a Mac/Aperture? I saw great Apple screens at ICP's school of photography in Manhattan, but am not sure which screens these are.
Anyone has hard info?

Pro photographers generally use something with an IPS panel. Eizo is a company that makes monitors that are used almost exclusively for accurate color purposes but are expensive. NEC has several IPS models that are popular with pro photographers, and the one that seems the most popular and respected and coveted is the NEC 2690 with the included and tightly integrated calibrator. The street price is only around $80 more than the new Apple 27", and unless someone proves otherwise, I'm going to assume the NEC 2690 kicks the daylights out of the Apple monitor.
Those on a strict budget go for the cheaper IPS panels offered by Dell and HP.
Some of us do use Apple Cinema Displays, but usually we're talking about the older aluminum framed matte ones (like the one I use), not the newer black glass glossy ones. My Apple Cinema Display has done great and still calibrates well, but it's outdated.

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