How to fix Slow 2017 Imac

You do have a lot of free storage.

At the top of the report, it says:

"Heavy RAM usage - Apps are using a large amount of RAM."

That's what I was talking about in my first post. Can you weed out some apps?

I'm not great at reading the type of report that you've posted, sorry.

Good luck. I hope you can get this computer running faster.

Okay, if the hard drive is okay then the things to check are:

• Out of date third party apps which requires you check each of your third party apps and ensure they are up-to-date.
• Next is to take the Fusion Drive out of the equation which would mean to buy an external SSD and make the external SSD your startup drive. On a computer that is almost 10 years old, IMHO that does not make sense though.

I did and that is why I suggested what I did! If you want to check the internal HD portion of your Fusion Drive, download and run DriveDX and if it shows even 1 error that means the drive is failing. Don't examine the SSD portion of the Fusion Drive, examine the HD portion that is what I suspect is failing.

None the less, you should plan on replacing the computer very very soon.

How much memory and storage do you have? How much free storage do you have?

Maybe do a clean-out of apps and files that you don't need, anymore. (I.e., free up some space.)

I used a late 2013 iMac up until the summer of 2024.

You could also try doing a clean install.

A 2017 is obsolete and would be expensive to speed up.Chances are the hard disk portion of the Fusion Drive is failing and needs replacing.Put that effort and money into 2017s replacement.