Need advice on new mac for video editing.

Hello!  I'm throwing $4,000 down on a new iMac to use for video editing and various other design purposes.  I'm maxing it out with a 3.75ghz quad core intel i7, 32 gigs of ram, 4 gigs of video ram and a 1t sold state hard drive.  With being a creative cloud subscriber  and updates being rolled out constantly, as a video editor do you think i'll get at least 5-7 years out of this mac.  I also do 3d animates with after effects and cinema 4d.  Thanks!  Any advice and feedback is greatly appreciated.

I made last updates to PC configuration (updates - bold) and soon going to buy. So... maybe final check:
CPU:  Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2GHz
Cooler:  Corsair Hydro H70
MB:  Asus P9X79 PRO
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Black 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600 CL9 1.35V XMP1.3
Video:  Asus GTX670-DC2-2GD5
HDD:  Samsung 830 Series 128GB SATA3 520/320MBs (system disk)
          2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA3 7200RPM 64MB (scratch/cache/render disk) *
PSU:  CORSAIR AX850 80+ GOLD
DVD:  LiteOn BD-RE iHBS212-32
Case:  ANTEC P280
OS:  Win7 Pro OEM
RAID:  G-SPEED eS (RAID 5, projects/media)
* Due to a limited budget, at the beginning I'll use HDD's in non-RAID configuration or will build RAID0 based on MB RAID controller

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