Originally posted by boriscleto pebkac
Hilarious! (And so often very true...)
To the OP, I cannot comment on your needs, except to say that a year and a half ago I upgraded to a 27" iMac with the 3.4Ghz i7 quad-core, and put in 32GB of RAM. I regularly abuse the system batch processing huge amounts of images (8-10GB at a time) for HDR, all the while stitching panoramas, surfing the web, and sometimes running Windows via Paralells. Nary a hiccup.
Worst computing experience I've had recently was thanks to Adobe Updater and CS6, nothing from my iMac. That said, I know part of my system's solidity is due to avoiding major OS upgrades (not updates, those I'll do). I'm sticking with MacOS 10.6.8 on my work machine until I'm dragged into the future by a hardware upgrade!