Graphics for iMac

I'm going to be buy a new iMac today and I was leaning towards the base model with the Nvidia GeForce graphics. I see the next version up uses the ATI Radeon though and I'm wondering if it is a worthwhile upgrade for me.
This computer will mainly be used as a media server, but I do use it for video compression fairly often. Will a graphics card speed that up at all? I'm guessing no. I won't be playing any games on this machine. Otherwise some light video editing and Adobe Lightroom are also possible.

The entry-level model you are looking at should do fine for what you want to do. I bought the 21.5" entry-level model, but upgraded the processor to 3.33Ghz and added another 4GB on third-party RAM for a total of 8GB. The 3.33Ghz processor has 6M L2 cache too compared to the 3.06Ghz's 3M L2. I'm real happy with this unit.
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qnnick wrote:
> I am very familiar with FW but I do not like Photoshop,
however I have both I
> preffer to use FW. As I have seen on one presentation
new FW CS3 has CMYK
> pallete so my question is: can FW CS3 be used for
preparation of graphic for
> printing or what are the obstacles?
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of images
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