Buying a iMac 24" Intel Core 2 Duo processor for CS2 & CS3?

I have been a PC and MAC person for many years, but would like to move to one platform, MAC.
I am a photographer that has been using a XP x64 PRO box (AMD 64 3800+, 4GB DDR Ram, Dual Monitors) for a couple years in my photography sorting and light editing and am wondering if an Intel iMac 24 could handle my daily tasks; they are as follows: These are all RAW files from a Nikon D2x or D200.
1. Loading the daily shots from a shoot using a card/media reader
2. Open and make the picks within Bridge
3. Open keeps in Camera RAW, I make 98% of my adjustments in Camera RAW.
4. Then open the ones that need alittle more tweaking into CS2 as 16bit, to make very minor corrections such as dodge and burn or a B&W conversion using channels; save as PSD/DNG.
5. I may print some of these to and Epson 1280.
Since I do not use any major filters and do very little heavy loading in CS2, will a iMac 24 handle this type of work.
Regards,
Johnny Kurtz

Well, thank you to all who responded.
I ordered my iMac 24 and it should have been here today, but snow has slowed my delivery to Utah, luckily it is coming new from the East Bay of San Francisco and will be here tomorrow.
I went with a 24" iMac 2.16 Intel Dual Core 2/2G RAM/500 G HD/Nvidia 7600GT256, and will be running dual monitor via the mini DVI port. I am also taking 3 SATA II drives from my PC and running them externally, firewire & USB. I am watching eBay and other sources for the 2GB DDR chip so I will have 3GB DDR soon.
I will run my PC version of CS2 until CS3 ships and will do a cross-upgrade to the Mac version then, also looking at Lightroom for culling the herd of photographs. I don't like the reviews and Apple Discussions about Aperture, maybe version 2.0.
Cheers,
Johnny

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