at my school, we have this 20' inch imac g5, with the whole production suite, and let me tell you its amazing (I have barely used it)...Final Cut has just about the same effects as Premiere, but I haven't used final cut enough to know if its better or worse then premiere. I have used premiere for about 5-6 months, and have gotten the hang of it...My problem is, I don't have the money to buy a 20 inch imac, I want to know what would be good enough with final cut if i were to buy a mac, because I know what works for a pc (for premiere), but not macs. All i need is space (i could just get an external drive), and just enough to perform video editing tasks...