New iMac Retina for Premiere CC 2014

Hi everyone,
we're ready to upgrade a couple of PCs here at the studio and I think we are probably jump over to the Mac wagon. We love the idea of getting the new Retina iMacs (maxed out) with i7 4.0GHZ and 32 RAM, flash storage.... There are a few considerations on top of performance like compactness, portability and yes...design. There are however a couple of questions:
- Will the iMacs excel in editing HD footage with Premiere CC 2014, we need them to edit like a hot knife cuts through butter
- In terms of editing with external hard drives, is USB 3 a good idea until we can afford some Thunderbolt drives?
- I read the new iMacs will come with AMD graphic cards so I guess they wont be able to use the CUDA Mercury engine?
thanks for your help,
Guille

The Mercury Engine can use OpenCL in Radeon cards. That being said, the R9 M290X is not in the list of currently supported cards, and therefore the Mercury Engine should default to Software Only.
Adobe won't add the R9 M290X to the list of supported cards until they can fully test it. So hopefully they will add it in a future update (*fingers crossed*).
Until then, you may be better off with a maxed out 27" iMac which has the GeForce GTX 775M, which is supported. It will no doubt perform better, and yes it will be like a hot knife through butter.

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