Purchasing New iMac, What to Upgrade?

Hi,
I will be purchasing my first iMac in a couple weeks and I was wondering what should I upgrade? I can only afford one upgrade to a 21.5 inch 3.2GHz i3 iMac and I didn't know which upgrade would make it faster for just general use, internet browsing, and applications such as Adobe designing and basic photo/video editing softwares for future use.
_My choices are_
-i3 to an i5 Processor
-4GB to an 8GB RAM
-1TB to a 2TB Hard Drive
Since I can only upgrade one, I was curious what some Mac users with experience think is best for me.
Thanks a lot!
(Apologies if this is in the wrong forum)

A couple thoughts to add to those already offered. I would go first for the processor speed. While it may be a small increase for the work you plan, it is the one upgrade you have no future options over. The ram issue I would follow Barbara's advice; buy what you want from sources such as OWC, Crucial, Newegg to name three. The hard drive keep at 1 TB and go for an external FireWire drive y.ou can use for storage and backup. That is very important because should the internal drive fail, you can have the external drive setup as a bootable drive and with a backup you are fully operational.
Searching these discussions you will find any number of posts, my HD failed what do I do?
So my vote is faster CPU, buy third party ram, and buy an external drive for insurance.
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