Will I be happy with a iMac?

I currently have a DC G5 2.3 with 2.5 gigs of ram. I want to upgrade to a intel machine so I can also run windows for flight simulator X . On the mac side I run Abobe creative suite 3 mostly running Photoshop. I also have a MBP 2.4, which runs Photoshop and Flight Simulator very well, but after a few hours it gets very hot. I like having a Desktop along with a laptop. My question for 24” iMac owners will I be happy with the performance and are there any heat issues? Also is it easy to add ram or am I stuck with expensive Apple ram? Thanks

My iMac screams and runs CS3 Apps very well. In the beginning it did seem to get a bit hot. Never had any issues with it but I was concerned so I installed Temperature Monitor and SMCFanControl. All I did was adjust the internal fan speeds up a bit and it runs about 10-15C cooler without any additional noise. RAM is easy to upgrade and cheap if you don't buy it from Apple.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306204
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