Mac Pro vs Imac in Amature video editing

[ChrisA]

I know its been a while since this thread has been active but I came across it on google and figured this would probably be the best place to be able to answer my question, I'm getting into Action sports filming/editing and I was wondering how a iMac quad core with i7 processor, 8g of ram, with a ATI Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB video card will do with 1080i video work? I'll have FCP and will use compressor on the advice Ive read so far in this thread.

Wow, I'm still subscribbed to this thread. See my post above. If you are shootinf a few hours of footage per month render times don't matter as you can just do something else but if shooting every day your work will back up. those people tend t own more than one Mac Pro