Which MBPro setup w/ext. display do I want?

I recently purchased a 15" early 2008 MBPro (glossy) at a great price but my sister just asked me to pick out a new Mac for her. I therefore get a second chance at deciding what my own optimum system is as she will take my several week old MBPro if I choose to go with another system for myself.
My use is primarily digital photography. Also light video conversion and editing, general productivity, web development/maintenance, personal stuff like web surfing, e-mail, flight sim, i-chat, i-tunes, and so forth.
I just had a real look at the new aluminum MBP 15" and was impressed with it. I find the ability to use the new Apple LED display particularly attractive, as this monitor has been well reviewed and is attractively priced. Is this a good choice for calibration for color accuracy, or should I go for something like the NEC 2690 WUXI, which features high bit lookup table and calibration solution (for about $400 more)? If the NEC is better, I might as well stick to the early 2008 MBPro, possibly changing it for the matte screen version (available now at big discount). If the new Apple LED display will give as good or better performance for digital photography, then it might behoove me to go for the new MBPro as this monitor offers some nice features and would be seamlessly all-Apple. The total cost for either choice works out about the same.
To summarize, my choices are either spend more money on the NEC monitor and less on the blowout early 08 MBPro, or spend less money on the Apple LED display and more on the late 08 MBPro. The older MBPro also has an additional slight advantage over the new one in that it comes in a matte screen version. Any insights appreciated as I need to move on a purchase decision. Thanks in advance for comments!

I've never seen a way to do that for a Mac that shipped with ML. The very first thing I'd do with such a new Mac is clone the hard drive to an external drive and then never touch that partition for anything but to boot to in order to clone it back to the main drive as a "fresh" install.
You can use Disk Utility to create a clone, or either of two excellent third party choices; SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner.

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