Logic pro or logic 9 app for new iMac i5- or i7?

I'm a musician and teacher with a home studio that hasn't been running properly for a few years since I bought my DA88 in the late 80's, and sold my 3m's 24 track tape recorder! As I've been using PC's at school running Cubase & Nuendo, but at a very basic level, should I buy iMac i5 or i7 for my home studio production?
Then, should I download the logic 9 app on my iPad ready to copy to my iMac, if I buy it, or should I purchase logic pro software to have a spare hard copy if and when I need to back it up?
Really don't know what to do?
How many watts per internal speaker is the iMac 27" & 25"?
As there is only a mini jack output on the iMac, how do I split the tracks separately onto my 24 channel O2R desk? I presume I will only get stereo out with a stereo jack plug in one output & have to do the mixing on the iMac?
I have a MOTU midi express 8 in & 4 out never yet used, plus various outboard effects including Lexicon, SRV2000 and Drawmer compressor limiters, Rocktron hush, Neumann mike, AKG 414 & SM58 mikes,, XMPTE SYMPTE synchroniser etc but all are redundant at the moment!
What do I need to purchase and to do to get started recording my 2 outboard keyboards, Roland sampler, 2 expander keyboard modules and 4 vocal tracks, all to be double and some treble tracked at times too?
Professional advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.

I'll answer a couple of these and let others chime in.
In my opinion... you don't want to use built-in Mac audio output/iMac speakers for anything remotely resembling professional work. You have some pro equipment you need a pro or semi-pro audio interface with multiple ins/outs. You already have a MIDI interface so you're ok there.
Apple no longer sells "hard copy" software, most of the Logic 9 boxes have been removed from the shelves.
You will have to purchase from the App store.
Read this post to see what is, and what isn't included.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17113786#17113786
Don't bother downloading anything on the iPad that would be a wasted effort.
Hope you have a fast connection, Logics additional content is many, many gigs of data.
Amazed that you have Nuendo at school, it's both expensive and impressive, it is a recent version?

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