Recommended lowest Mac Specifications for 32-Channel Recording.

I've been looking a lot into using Logic for Multi-Track recording our bands in a Live setting.
I mix on a Yamaha M7CL and just purchased two MY16-AT Expansion cards that each give us 16 Channels of Digital Direct Out output, 32 Channels output in total. To go with that, I picked up a Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe 32-Channel Interface. For the time being, I only have Logic Express 8 so I will be using that on my Macbook Pro recording 16 Channels.
My question is, what is recommended for best performance on a desktop machine when recording 32 Channels once I upgrade to Logic Studio? I'm shooting to get a new iMac, but want to be sure that I am getting a machine that wont struggle too much when I'm editing the tracks. For example, the 20" (Current Generation) iMac, 2.66ghz and 4gb ram. I'm curious how that would handle it, especially on a bit of a budget.
Any ideas or suggestions are helpful, thanks.

I've never used my Mac to record live, but I have had more than 66 mono tracks running at once in LE7 on my Macbook from an external drive without a hitch. For 32 tracks the specs you listed should be plenty of machine to handle it, IMO.

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