chrisso

Eizo CS or CX as mentioned above.
Images look 'eye candy' on the iMac screen, but flatter and darker on my Eizo. You want a true representation for correct grading.

The iMac monitor is brighter and more punchy than a proper grading monitor. I use a second, flatter monitor with it.
I think you can probably use the current top level iMac with a fully upgraded graphics card, or one of the more powerful Macbook Pros with retina.

Eizo CS or CX as mentioned above.
Images look 'eye candy' on the iMac screen, but flatter and darker on my Eizo. You want a true representation for correct grading.

The iMac monitor is brighter and more punchy than a proper grading monitor. I use a second, flatter monitor with it.
I think you can probably use the current top level iMac with a fully upgraded graphics card, or one of the more powerful Macbook Pros with retina.

iMac 27" 3.4ghz - 2012
 
Edits raw and runs Resolve

I love the way people shift responsibility for their actions onto someone else.
Resolve 10 lite works perfectly on my relatively cheap 2012 iMac. Maybe you need to adjust your set up?
Focus peaking works perfectly on my pocket camera.
Yes, the screen is hard to see in daylight. There is a $165 Kinotehnik loupe available.
You didn't need to spend anything more than a m4/3rds lens and an sd card to use the pocket camera. Everything else you bought was your own decision and can't be blamed on BMD.
And honestly, I can't believe your complaining that you had to download the latest firmware!!!! How hard is that? You have to download the latest version of everything you buy these days. That's the Internet age for you.
As above, I'm really loving my pocket camera. The image quality is superb, but yes, it is a bit quirky.

I love the way people shift responsibility for their actions onto someone else.
Resolve 10 lite works perfectly on my relatively cheap 2012 iMac. Maybe you need to adjust your set up?
Focus peaking works perfectly on my pocket camera.
Yes, the screen is hard to see in daylight. There is a $165 Kinotehnik loupe available.
You didn't need to spend anything more than a m4/3rds lens and an sd card to use the pocket camera. Everything else you bought was your own decision and can't be blamed on BMD.
And honestly, I can't believe your complaining that you had to download the latest firmware!!!! How hard is that? You have to download the latest version of everything you buy these days. That's the Internet age for you.
As above, I'm really loving my pocket camera. The image quality is superb, but yes, it is a bit quirky.

The feature people are going to like are Pro-Res and Raw, not so much a particular camera or company.
Once an affordable Sony or Panasonic camera offers pro-res 4-2-2 and raw (without hacking), I think people will dump their pocket cameras.
It's a finnickety camera to use, it has QC issues, and is expensive to kit out due to the standard features you get with Sony and Panasonic that BMD have left out.

As a stills guy new to video, all of the concepts in Resolve are new to me. Everything in Capture One is familiar.
Capture One is solid on my 2012 iMac, Resolve 10 Lite has crashed a couple of times.
After a quick 5 minute grade in Capture One I'm gobsmacked at the quality of the raw from the pocket camera. My 5 minute grade out of resolve still looks flat and lifeless by comparison.
So far using other people's LUTs in Resolve has resulted in my pocket raw looking garish and OTT.
I'm sort of depressed about this camera for the first time. The look in Capture One is awesome. Everything I want it to be. The look in Resolve Lite is meh.
There is a free video tutorial for every step of the process in Capture One. So far I've seen no proper tutorials for Resolve 10 (free or paid). All being for Resolve 9 which i think is somewhat different.
I've spent two days trying to get my Capture One grade into FCPX. One minute of footage takes about 1 1/2 hours to export from Capture One. FCPX grinds to a halt trying to work with two thousand separate HQ clips.
It might work ok with just over 100 clips, making up 4 seconds of footage.
I'm dreaming over a motion version of capture One, but it looks like I'll have to get to grips with Resolve.

Wow, you posted this in at least two forums and apparently haven't read the pocket user guide.

The stay at 800 advice goes for prores also.
 
The way to bring light down is aperture and/or ND filter. The way to bring more light in is very fast lenses.....or lighting.

I don't really know why you are obsessing about this. It's not that big a deal is it?
Still, the pocket camera is priced below many pro-sumer equivalents (GH3), and as evident from all the online forum chatter, vimeo groups and youtube test videos, has overwhelmingly been bought so far by amateurs and hobbyists - myself among them.