Need iMac ASAP...is it worth waiting until 2013

Sold my old iMac 24 intel and was expecting new iMac in June 2012.  Now rumors are 2013 which is too long to wait.  Assume current iMac would be OK since I do not do development work or fancy photos, movies,etc.

Which 2007 iMac does your daughter have?
Is it the white one that looks like a giant iPod or the sliver model?
In either case, these machines can run OS X 10.7 Lion, but at this point not sure about the upcoming Mountain Lion.
Here are the Mac system requirements
An Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
Mac OS X v10.6.6 or later to install via the Mac App Store (v10.6.8 recommended); you can install without Mac OS X v10.6 by using an OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive, available on the Apple Online Store
7 GB of available disk space
2 GB of RAM
How much RAM is installed on yourq daughter's iMac?
If it's the early 2007 24 inch screen model, you can install 4 GB of RAM, but the iMac will only identify and use 3 GBs of RAM.
If the iMac is a later 2007 24 inch screen model, you can install a total of 6 GBs of RAM.
What, exactly, is the issue with your daughte's iMac that music and video is a problem?
Every iteration of OS X gets more and more RAM hungry. So the more RAM you can install into a Mac, the better.
While both Thunderbolt and USB 3 are phenomenal, FireWire is no slouch. If you use FW 800 and FW 800'peripherals, transfer rates are 800 Mbps.
What kind of audio/video projects are you or your daughter working on that needs USB 3 speeds?
What are the compatibilty issues with hooking up peripherals from other parties?
iMacs have USB 2.0 at the very least for connectivity?
Instead of complaining, maybe we can help out with the issues you are having with your iMac?
Instead of complaining there are no new iMacs, you're not interested in the current line up of iMacs?
I DID buy and older 2010 27 inch screen iMac fully loaded dor a fairly competitive price and I do enough audio/video side work using both iMovie, Final Cut Express and Logic Express. My " new" iMac seems pretty capable to me.
New or Newer iMacs are pretty snappy, especially if you add more than the minimal amount of RAM.
Maybe we can help eek out better performance of your current iMac, if you could list the issues you or your daughter are having?

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