A little memory and imac selection advise needed

This new round of core 2 duo imacs are making me FINALLY comfortable in switching to the Mac. Primarally for video editing. Can't afford FCP so FCE will be my choice. I also am a Adobe CS2 user. The current machines come with 1 gig of memory. Would I be ok with that amount or would I soon regret not paying the $175 for uping it to 2 gig? Also, screen size. Using the machine mostly for photos and video, is $500 worth the 4 extra inches? I've seen these machines at a local apple store and they are beautiful to say the least. I just didn't know if the 24 was a little over the top or not.
Any advise?
Sony P4 2.53ghz Windows XP

Hi(Bonjour)!
Get as much memory as you can, specialy if the extra chips are added at apple factory if the extra modules replace the originals one, leaving two slots available for future expansion( in fact: 2 slots because memory module are added in pair set, there are 4 slots used in pair in intel iMac: 2 filled with factory installed modules, and 2 free).
Ask for this information when buying from apple store, may be the newer models don't have this limitation as pre-intel iMacs.
Third party memory is usually cheaper that apple's one, but you'll have to use the third and forth slot. If your needs exceed this amount in future, you'll have to replace two modules with a bigger ones, leaving two smaller modules unused in your hand.
For your screen question:
as I see on apple imac's web site:
-the 24" model offers 1920 by 1200 pixels display area (16:10 aspect ratio). That seems that your can preview HDV content at full resolution (like on Apple Cinema HD display 23" and 30 " 16:9 aspect ratio).
-the 20" model offers 1680-by-1050 resolution (16:10 aspect ratio), not enough for HDV display in full resolution, but okay for previewing scaled down HDV content.
You get wider viewing angle with the 24", but the same contast ratio for two models.
If you plan to do some HDV editing in future (FCE HD can do that), the extra cost is okay.
Pay attention to buy the current version of Final Cut express HD 3.5 to use it with intel iMac. Previous version are not universal one.
Michel Boissonneault

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