Is it time to get an iMac?

I just read on macrumors that a guy successfully upgraded the yonah chip in his macmini to a merom one with no problems at all.
Now i'm the market for a desktop mac and the powermacs are a little overkill for me so i want to get an imac but the reason i havent is because i was waiting for the merom chips.
Now that someone has sucessfully done the upgrade, i'm thinking of getting an imac now since i can upgrade the chips later on when the merom chips start shipping since the iMac has a socket based processor as well.
Usually when doing upgrades like these from my experience, the graphics cards always dissapoint as well as BIOS compatibility...but i know the Radeon X1600 card is a very solid card that'll last for a while and that intel has promised the yonah and merom boards are backwards compatible. This also means we can finally go past the 2GB RAM limit, which can only leas to good things
So what do you think folks? should i go ahead with this mode of action?

wasn't aware the merom processor was already out...

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