![]() ![]() Etrecheck is the development of a long-serving and trusted contributor here expressly for displaying information in these forums to help us help you. We can see hard data about drive performance, software issues, and RAM usage. The free version will do nicely for this purpose, although the app is worthy of our financial support. Fortunately there is a safe, secure way to do that. We can quickly and within the confines of these forums help you determine what issues are at play if you use EtreCheck Pro, available here: If, before spending a lot of money, you want opinions based on hard data and not history, you can post a snapshot of your system config that includes RAM and drive performance numbers. I'd wager that you will detect no perceptible difference in the performance of the computer if you double your RAM now. If the hard drive is slowing you down, all the RAM in the state won't fix that. ![]() if "slow" is the issue in a 2011 iMac, history here says it is far more likely that a mechanical hard drive is the issue, not RAM. ![]() Later, newer compatible RAM modules with greater capacity changed that to 32GB but Apple never goes back to update their spec sheet. "Official" max RAM, set at the time the computer was introduced, was 16GB. ![]()
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