Best 27" for photography

I'm planning on getting a 27" iMac (i7 or i5?). I mostly use my computer for photo editing in Photoshop CS5 and LR3. Also web surfing, email, etc. I thought to get 4GBs of memory and upgrading in the future as needed. Should I consider getting the SATA (1 or 2 TB?) plus the SSD? I'm willing to spend more, just don't want to overspend if it won't make that big of a difference. Any opinions of the configuration would be welcomed. Thanks in advance!

The ssd will dramatially speed up access to files and programs stored on the ssd drive, but it is limited to 256GB. You would probably easily exceed that amount if you are dealing with high resolution prints. I would not worry much about the i7 or i5, for photoshop, either is adequate, I would worry more about memory. Per the above suggestion, buy 3rd party memory and beef it up. 8 GBs is not too much for working with photos. I buy my memory from OWC (macsales.com). They guaranty their memory to work with your mac.
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