Running FCE on new iMac

I just purchased one of the new aluminum 20" iMacs and I wanted to use it for editing some video. I am concerned about whether FCE will run on it or not. I read some stuff on the internet and I am not sure if it will or not. Something about the graphics card not being AGP???
I did some searching on this discussion forum but did not find a difinitive answer.
Any help would be appreciated.

As long as your FCE is version 3.5 or above, it will run.

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There doesn't seem to be an uninstaller for CS3, and I've tried the CC Cleaner tool several times. It doesn't work and it is not correctly documented anywhere. For example, there is no log file at "/Users/[user name]/Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.log" as one of the Adobe pages states. For example, there is no log file at "/Users/[user name]/Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.log" so I can't find any success or error states of the tool.
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While I've used Macs exclusively at home, I've never messed with partitioning. I was under the impression that I would create a partition and install Windows 7 and a copy of our Quickbooks and then would have to sign in and out between partitions to run Quickbooks...effectively signing in and out of 2 different computer systems (as if I had 2 different computers).
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Search the internet for "virtualization." Or, look on the Parallels/VM Ware websites for how it all works.
Because the OS sees the Virtual Disk as a single file, if you go into Windows and add a transaction, that whole file changed, not just the single transaction.
Time Machine* "listens" for changes in files. When it detects that a file changed, it backs up the entire file. It doesn't go in and back up the part of the file that changed.
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Still, there is no way to hook up esata drives, replace the video card with something that supports Motion or Color or add any one of dozens of nifty bells and whistles.
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I trashed preferences and repaired permissions, then I restarted the computer, but when I start up FCE, it instantly goes to the "Final Cut Express Quit Unexpectedly" message.
I thought if I had run the FCS Remover, I would have had a "clean" installation of the software (not needing the trashing of the preferences).
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