IMac 24'/recording

i'm thinking about getting an iMac 24' with 2.8GHz intel core 2 extreme, 2GB memory, 500GB 72rpm hard drive. My question is since i use a lot of soft synths in my recordings will this machine handle it well enough? Does anyone use the IMac 24' with logic and have u had any problems? Just trying to do a little research before I buy. some of the particular soft synths i use are sample logic elements, spectrasonics atmosphere, sonik synth etc. thanks for any responses and input.

You might want to ask on the Logic discussion page. I'm about to get a similar machine-I ordered 24" 2.8GHz 500GB 1GB RAM (so I can upgrade it to 4GB using Crucial RAM). I guess it depends just how many soft synths you're going to be using simultaneously, but you can always freeze some. And a guy in Sound on Sound magazine a month ago had just got this model of iMac and got amazing numbers of tracks (don't have the magazine with me) so the internal HD should be fine I would say. I'm going to work from the internal drive, then back up to an external firewire drive.

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