Good setup for editing Canon Vixia HF-S10

Am using a Canon Vixia HF S10 and want to edit. Thinking about an iMac 24 inch with
2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
640GB Serial ATA Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 512MB
and Final Cut Express
I see no reason why this wouldn't do the job, but would like some feedback from more experienced videographers and/or editors.
Thanks

You may be right lenn5. It is an amazing little camera. Not just the image but the way the controls are set up. It can be used fully manual. Its manual focus assist feature is especially good. When you start operating the manual focus knob on the front to one side of the lens, it jumps to a close up, a sort of instant zoom that allows for very precise focus. This helps to over comes what I anticipated to be a real short coming, the absence of a view finder. The real test will come when I have to focus in bright sunlight. It has a "brighten view finder" feature which is supposed to help with that. We'll see.

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