Love my new 3.06Ghz iMac

I am upgrading from a 20" 2Ghz G5 iMac and this new 24" is amazing. I was a bit worried about the glossy screen but now I am a true believer. The screen is beautiful and I don't have windows directly behind the screen so no reflections.
I want to run some video encoding tests after the G5 gets back from the shop (crashed hard drive...luckily everything is backed up)..
Another thing I noticed is that the built in video camera on the new iMac seems to be much better than the camera on my six month old macbook. I will test out iChat AV during a business trip to Singapore to conference with my wife and kids.

Stuart Lawrence wrote:
My current computer is a Velocity Micro Intel Core 2 Quad Processor 2.66GHz with an Nvidia EVGA GeForce 9800GTX graphics card and 4 gigs of memory. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.
Would the iMac be a downgrade from my computer?
When multi-tasking, yes. You are sacrificing two cores for a small increase in computing power. The 9800GTX is also superior to the cards included in the current line of iMacs. At the same time, in my experience Mac OS X is a quicker OS than Windows (esp Vista), so while the hardware will be a bit of a downgrade, the OS will be an upgrade (even if you Boot Camp the Windows install).
Will the iMac be powerful enough for my needs? or should I look into getting a Mac Pro?
For what you stated, yes. Even your current rig is a tremendous amount of overkill. Are you sure that's all you do with it? Your computer sounds more like a gaming machine than a "surf the web, edit some photos" computer.

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