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Yeah I'll mainly be editing HD footage. I'm pretty much all set to buy the iMac just trying to understand the overall significance and nuances in the different r/w speeds for HD's. Also it sucks that USB 3.0 is on the verge of coming out but unfortunately I can't wait another half year for that...

The iMac I was looking at getting would have the following specs: # 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 # 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM # 2TB Serial ATA Drive # 8x double-layer SuperDrive # ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM Which seems pretty comparable to the significantly more expensive Mac Pro...

Mac Pro as far as I know can get an eSATA adapter. For iMac though, is lack of eSATA/USB 3.0/extra HD options a problem for video editing? Are the read/write speeds that significant?

I see a lot of people relying more and more on external HD's for video editing. How important are read/write speeds in general for use in programs like Final Cut or After Effects? As far as I know internal SATA cables provide the fastest speeds and thus make internal drives more "ideal" but is...

So I'm considering purchasing a new IMac with the following specs: # 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 # 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4x2GB # 1TB Serial ATA Drive # 8x double-layer SuperDrive # ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM Two questions I had on it- Is the video card in there upgradeable in...

The mac would be running 2 of these http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC742ZM/A But I guess it would be pointless in the end to drop like 6k on a completely beefed up mac to try to avoid having more than one desktop if the processor will always be significantly inferior to a separate PC...

Gotcha... for gaming purposes, how do you think the 8 core xeon westermere processor fairs against the i7 2600k quad core? As far as I've heard, mots games don't make use of multi-cores and instead are very heavily CPU intensive. Am I wrong about this? (I hope I am so I can get away with using...

So far I know that Intel Mac's run Windows natively via Bootcamp. But despite trying to do research on the net, I can't seem to find much information about this. How well do these games run on new high-end Intel Macs? Are all games compatible, as if it was an actual PC? DirectX, OpenGL, etc, all...