Hey all,
I boxed back in TBC and am now hoping to return to it after taking a year out traveling (sold my boxing setup for extra cash :P).

im looking to buy a new computer but cant decide the best route to take... basically i use macs for programming at home.. i currently have an old 17" iMac and would ideally like to upgrade to the new bad boy 27" quad core. below are the specs:

2.66GHz Intel Core i5
2560 x 1440 resolution
4GB memory (easily upgradable)
1TB hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics with 512MB

Although with this setup i will still run windows 7 and use keyclone as thats what i'm used to, the main downfall of the iMac is the graphics card.. now i am fully aware macs integrate their graphics cards much more efficiently than a PC and the potential is much greater than a PC with the same graphics card.. although i am worried with cataclysm on the horizon that comfortably quad boxing wont be possible with the iMac.. let me know what you guys think regarding this choice

I have found benchmark scores for the new iMacs although i don't understand what a 7000 score would represent.. (this is GeekBench if anyone does understand this??)

also to note... my bro has the baby 21.5 core 2 duo with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics which runs 4x wow with no problems unless in dalaran where he has to drop the graphics. it is quite surprising how well these machines work with what seems to be low end graphics cards. i have read somewhere that most models are actually overclocked from standard.

As my budget is around £1500 i decided to see what i could build myself, for the same price as the iMac.. here is what i have come up with:

Processor - Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3
Hard Drives - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
and possibly a 80GB SSD???
Memory - Corsair Dominator GT 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C7 1866MHz Triple Channel Kit
Graphics Card - XFX GeForce GTX 285 1024MB PCI-Express
a 700W PSU, an optical drive of some kind and a case (probably the NZXT silent)

All this comes to around £1100 (without SSD) but is this a bit overkill for wow? bearing in mind cataclysm may be a bit more taxing?
Is a SSD worth the £150ish? is it that much of an improvement? (this is to hold my wow folders or OS)

keyboard and mouse will be the Razor Lycosa and Naga (i would prob get these for gaming on the iMac anyway)

that leaves the screen.. the iMac boasts an led 27" display with 2560 x 1440 resolution! this hard to beat!

a similar screen is the Dell 27" which has the same resolution yet not led lit! But the cost is well over budget at £800 (best price i have found) there are of course other 27" displays for cheaper but with much lower resolution.. although i guess lower resolution wouldn't be as hard on graphics but wouldn't look as crisp! I am really quite stuck on the monitor side of things!

I would love to hear your feedback.. how you think the proposed build of mine will stack up and all or any views to help me make up my mind up or improve the build, or what build would you go for with my budget? if there are any mac boxers out there.. how do you find playability?

Thanks for reading
Byron