New iMacs and second display

I'm looking at getting a new 20" iMac and looking at both versions. My main concern is that I already have an older Apple 20" cinema display (the kind with 2 plastic legs) that I want to hook up as a second, extended desktop monitor.
The first iMac has an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory. Can this run a second 20" display or will there be significant slowdown?
The more expensive iMac has an ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory. Clearly this is better with more memory but will there be a huge difference that I would notice in every day use, enough to warrant the extra cost?
I don't do any videos or 3d rendering, I work in Photoshop and Illustrator a lot on 2d graphics, sometimes pretty large but hardly ever over 200 MB.
Kevin

I have the 24" imac intel duo 2.4, tried running my apple ADC 15" via the ADC to DVI converter that I used to use on my G5. The converter is more or less a power supply but it requires that you plug into a computer USB (not on a hub, even a powered one) port. This started making the imac act wierd and during a disk verification, it came up with several USBF errors, locked up a few times with the spinning beach ball. I disconnected the display and usb plug and everything works just fine. I also have a ADC 20" cinema that has superb color and is the closest thing to the press we print on. Even tho I try to do things by the numbers, it's nice to have a calibrated screen and the new imacs (even with custom profile) is still off. I'm sad that I won't be able to have the extended desktop until i either buy a dvi version or a new 20 from apple ($500 refurb). Anyone have any experience using the converter successfully?

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