Which imac is faster?

I will some gaming and cant decide which imac to get?
Upgraded second level 21.5 in
3.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3MB shared L2 cache
8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4x2G
1TB Serial ATA Drive
Front side bus 1066MHz
1920 by 1080 pixels
or
$1999 (non upgraded top level imac) 27 in mac 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 (quad core)
8MB shared L3 cache
4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
1TB Serial ATA; 7200 rpm
ATI Radeon HD 4850 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory

One would think the QuadCore, but sounds like two good machines. Personally, I don't think the speed is what you should look at here. Both are FAST. What do you need computer for? If for business and/or graphics, go with the QuadCore. If for home, recording stuff, etc. why spend so much more for it? I'm not a gamer, but if you're using computer for games, the players will probably suggest QuadCore, I do not know.

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SOme comparison charts to be found here http://www.marketingtactics.com/Speedmark/
My guess would be that the new Mini is faster than the old iMac.
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Which imac shall I buy ??
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The iMac refresh usually comes toward the end of the end.
No one knows exactly when, though.
Something better, faster, cheaper is always around the corner.
Buy what you need/want now.
It isn't suddenly going to go obsolete.
Budget and save to be able to purchase and register for the extended AppleCare plan before your free one year of service ends. This will extend the warranty repairs out to another two years.
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So i've got a choice between these two models -
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I just want to gauge opinions, i'll be using it as my day to day computer as well, some video editing, but nothing too strenuous. How big is the difference in graphic and processing powers.
Thanks for your help

With all due respect the question was "which iMac would be better for gaming?". Key word here is 'better', not 'perfect', not 'ideal'; just 'better'. Unqualified answers and/or sweeping statements do very little to contribute to a discussion, let alone answer the question under consideration.

Which imac would work best for Graphic Design?

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The 24" iMac uses a superior LCD panel to the 20" model and so is certainly better suited to your purposes. I don't know how badly having a piece of glass in front of the display would affect you as a designer though.
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So I was reading over your post, and even though this is older and has to do with CS5, I have some information for CS6 that will be relevant to your question now that it is time to upgade the software. In general Photoshop has always been more about RAM than Processing power, though that is important too. Until CS5 it could never quite take advantage of what multi-core processors really had to offer, and even the graphics card didn't really effect much of it outside of certain features and the 3D optio
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|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT   |              |     8 |   336 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | NESTED LOOPS SEMI |              |     8 |   336 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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|* 3 |   INDEX RANGE SCAN | JHIST_JOB_IX |     4 |    36 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT   |              |     8 |   336 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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