WoW & iMac

I've been using a Dell laptop for Warcraft, and it works fine at max settings (except for shadow, which I turn right down), giving me a fps of about 31 in Outland ( a lot faster, obviously, on levels up to 60 in Azeroth). I used to use an old iMac (the first LCD one, the 'iLamp') but it's now far far too slow, even at the min settings for everything.

I'm considering buying a 21" iMac but have doubts that it'll run WoW at the 1920 x 1280 standard settings at anything like a reasonable rate. I appreciate the processor is 3GHz rather than the 2GHz of my Dell XPS M1530, but the graphics card would have to be a lot better than the NVIDIA 8600M used by the laptop. The iMac I'm considering has a lowish-end 'ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics with 256MB', according to the Apple web site.

I've asked in the local Apple store and, exactly as you'd expect, they're non-commital about it.

So does anyone actually have experience of using a 20" (or even better a new 21") iMac and can tell me what sort of fps they're getting?

Thanks
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