What should I upgrade in my iMac 21.5"?

I'm planning to buy an iMac 21.5 with 2.9 GHz. I have money for 2 things to upgrade but I don't know what to upgrade!
I use my mac for Photoshop, AutoCAD, Solid Works (Parallels with Windows 7) and obviously other smaller programs like Spotify, iTunes, Pages, Keynote, etc.
I'm sure to upgrade from quad-core i5 to quad-core i7 but the thing I'm not so sure is to go with the 16 gb RAM instead of 8 but stay with the 1TB ATA Serial HD or:
stay with the 8 gb RAM and upgrade the HD for 1TB Fusion Drive or 256 gb Flash.
Thanks

Photoshop and Spotify will likely use up a lot of memory, so consider upgrading to 16GB.

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See here to Buy it...
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
If so Contact Apple in your Country to Purchase a Lion Download code...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
In the US...
1-800-MY-APPLE or 1-800-676-2775
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http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
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You can use these Links to check which RAM is suitable for your Mac...
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/
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Thank for everyones help so far. It seems the computer I have is a .little under speced so I was wondering what I should consider upgrading next. Memeory, CPU and GPU may be the answer but I am a student so need to take things slowly.
I Cuppently have the following setup:
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Is GPU used to play DSLR/AVCHD?
The GPU isn't used for any playback. It helps with effects, scaling, color space, resolution and frame rate differences, but decoding for playback is always handled by the CPU.
That isn't exactly the case. The graphics card still has to put the pixels on the screen and refresh the frame and I kid you not, I've seen PCs too slow to do that. Remember all those emachines and HP's that shipped out in 2008 with the geforce 6150 onboard? They cannot play youtube videos at full screen without chopping frames in half and skipping even with a high powered dual athlon chip and tons of RAM. They can't play DVDs or video files above about 640x480 either. All programs use the graphics card to some extent but playback of an unmodified video clip requires practically no calculations, just the OS telling the graphics card to create the separate graphics layer and put it on the screen. In your case, with the 550TI, it's fast enough to play anything though.
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1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
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Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 249.72 GB (163.45 GB free)
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Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro7,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
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NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB
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