IMac and Premiere Pro CS6 compatability

Hi
I am currently importing HD footage off a DSLR Canon 60D (h.264) into an old macbook with PP CS4. I have to render every bit of footage before I can view it without juddering. Every time I add a transition or title etc, I have to render again to view it cleanly.
It's time to upgrade.
I'd like an iMac. I know the cost arguments, but I am not interested in buying a PC. An iMac is cheaper than a MacBook Pro, and I'd like the extra screen space.
But I'm getting confused about what will actually happen if I try and work Premiere Pro CS6 on an iMac.
1.Will it simply not work? Or will it just not have as good as performance as it could?
2.Does it mean I would only lose out on the GPU processing? With my DSLR footage, will I be able to watch it, judder free, without having to render it first?
3.If it does still fundamentally work, at what point would it start to falter? How much would I have to have going on in a project for it to need the power of the merucry playback engine?
4.Does anyone know IF a new iMac came out in the next two months, would it likely have the 1GB VRAM or would Adobe offer an update so that it worked with whatever the new iMac had. (eg the current top end iMac has AMD Radeon HD 6970M with 1GB, yet is not supported by CS6 - why?)
Finally, why do Apple and Adobe have to make this so difficult?
Many thanks for anyone's help.

nepmedia wrote:
We need to make CS6 compatible with AMD 6970M, on an IMAC, thats all there is to it. Any ideas?
You could do some experimentation and see if the OpenCL text file works the same way as the CUDA text file. I'm betting it does, but I have no direct experience. I think it's worth looking into tho...
Open a new Finder window and navigate to the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 folder.
Right-click on the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.app icon, and chose "Show Contents" from the menu.
A new window will pop open; open the Contents folder.
Double-click on the file named: opencl_supported_cards.txt. If it asks you what application to use to open it, select TextEdit.
Now... be VERY CAREFUL what you type here. Add a new line to the file and on it: ATI Radeon HD 6790M
That's it. COMMAND-S to save the file, COMMAND-W to close the file, and COMMAND-Q to quit TextEdit.
Alternatively, if you're comfortable in the UNIX environment like I am, open a Terminal.app window and do the following:
cd /Applications/Adobe\ Premiere\ Pro\ CS6/Adobe\ Premiere\ Pro\ CS6.app/Contents
sudo vi opencl_supported_cards.txt
Perform the above edit in vi, then save and close the file.
Start Premiere Pro back up and see if you have MPE available in hardware mode. Bear in mind: you're not going to be supported by Adobe if any issues pop up due to MPE stuff... this is an aftermarket "modification" to your software.
jas

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