Mac hardware configuration/purchase for animation & editing - 2013 and CS6

I do a lot of after effects work, and my job is switching me over to a Mac from pc. (The office is mostly mac - the tech guys and everyone who chooses our fonts will be thrilled!) They're looking at ordering a pretty standard imac build though I'm sure they'll go up to an i7. I'd never have thought of not getting a mac pro, now that they've been updated --- but am I just dating myself with that assumption? It's been a few years since I shopped for a machine; I've always worked on towers but don't know anyone who's used the 2012 ones.

Thank you for these quick replies; that explains why I haven't seen benchmarks for the 2012 issue. This idea just came up last night (when my veryvery souped-up pc tower ran into trouble and nobody could service it). I think they were planning to buy the standard imac build about five minutes later, and I said "wait wait! I don't think that can be right"....
We're doing a lot of motion graphics and light HD video editing (and rendering all that out) but no heavy FX work. I guess I'll ask for an i7 imac for the moment (though I weep at the thought of a glossy screen) since they look like ordering it *today*, and hope for a bigger machine to come.

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