I have a 2009 imac

I have a 2009 imac. I am running 8 gis of memory and use iphoto, aperture and shoot in the raw format. I recently looked at buying a new imac and see they are limited to 8 gigs. Does anyone have a suggesstion regarding an upgrade? Why did Apple limit the memory to 8 gigs? I am using IOS Mavericks, 3.06 Intel, 500 hard drive.
Thank you

Hi,
If you are asking whether the current iMacs are really limited to 8 gigs, they are not.
In the linked Apple web page you can see if you look at the Tech Specs that the current iMacs are configurable to 16 GB (or 32 GB for the larger screen version.) The caution is that you have to make this decision at the time of purchase because of limitations on what we or even qualified pros can do later.
Good luck,
dick glendon
Message was edited by: W. Richard Glendon

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    Mar 26, 2015, 07:14:59 AM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Verizon Cloud Service_2015-03-26-071459_[redacted].crash
    Mar 26, 2015, 07:09:52 AM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/WDDriveManagerStatusMenu_2015- 03-26-070952_[redacted].crash
    Mar 25, 2015, 10:27:42 AM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/discoveryd_2015-03-25-102742_[redacted].crash
    Mar 25, 2015, 07:27:20 AM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Verizon Cloud Service_2015-03-25-072720_[redacted].crash
    Mar 24, 2015, 09:42:27 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/discoveryd_2015-03-24-214227_[redacted].crash

Pay attention to what rkaufmann87 is saying, because I agree.
Chrome is very resource intensive.
It is possible you are running other memory intensive apps.
You have a lot of 3rd party additions loaded at boot time. Do you really need all of them? Even after you get rid of MacCleaner (as suggested by rkaufmann87).
Do you really need the seagate and WD drive software? The Mac is fairly good at accessing disks without 3rd party intervention.
Any of the 3rd party additions listed by EtreCheck that you do not need, you should consider uninstalling.
That fact that you have
    171.19 GB    Page-ins
in just about 4 days, says you have about 0.5megabytes per second. That is a huge load on your disk drive.
Either cut back on the RAM intensive apps, or get more RAM. At least 8GB, but if your Mac supports it, 16GB. Crucial.com and MacSales.com (OWC) are well respected by the long term forum contributes.

I have a 2009 imac

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