Anyone using an iMac for Photoshop?

If so, what are you using as a scratch disk?
The reason I ask is that I hear a lot of photographers are now using iMacs to do their image editing in Photoshop. The new iMacs are almost as fast as the old-design Mac Pro's and a lot less expensive than the upcoming "black trash can" Mac Pro.
But knowing that in order to run decent, Photoshop requires a scratch disk on a separate HDD or SDD than the application drive, I hesitate to buy a new iMac. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Auroria wrote:
crh24 wrote:
I use Photoshop CS6 on my late 2012 iMac with 32GB DRAM. Runs fine for me and I have the scratch disk set to a fast Thunderbolt drive.
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I am just wondering about the status of the scratch disk for an iMac -- being on an external drive vs. an internal. In your case the 32Gb RAM, graphics and external T-bolt combines well to get the job done.
I have had minimal response over at Adobe forum so far. They tend to be rather Windows-centric there, having done away with the Mac Photoshop forum. Thanks.
I've always made it a point to purchase the top of the line graphics card when I've purchased an iMac. It is the one thing that is involved in giving maximum performance to Photoshop and other video related apps that cannot be updated later.
I've found that with the 3TB Fusion drive I really don't need to use a secondary drive for the cache. I currently set the cache to the internal hard drive and I keep all of my photos on the external T-bolt drive and it seems to run very smoothly but I didn't notice a slowdown when the cache and photos were on two different external T-bolt drives.

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