Help with my wife's 2019 iMac

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I am a windows users and know very little abouts Macs but she is a designer so "needs" as Mac! ;)

Anyway! The system is running very slow, even opening this information windows took a couple of seconds.

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She has nearly 300gb spare on the hard drive so not issue with storage.

She mainly uses the Adobe cloud suite of software InDesign and Photoshop in particular and if a heavy user of Adobe cloud storage for work, these take an ages to open and sometimes never open, and when open they are quite slow and sluggish. But the problem is not limited to the Adobe software even opening Safari is quite slow.

Other than a re-install of the OS is there anything that we could try first? She does only have 8Gb of RAM and as a Windows users I might put it down to this but from what I have read this should be plenty on a Mac?

Many Thanks
 
Cheers @JollyJamma and @Feek I will check what the harddrive is and those pieces of software.

As a sidenoet I notice on eBay that the 2nd hand prices for these machines is quite high and you could get a new Mac Mini M2 with 16Gb RAM for a similar price to what these are selling for. Do these hold a premium as they no longer sell a 27inch iMac?
 
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The Mac Mini M2 with 16gb RAM for £850 does seems quite reasonable in comparison to what she has paid in the past. She has the mouse and keyboard already so would only need to sort out a screen.

Is there anyway you can use the 27 inch 5K retina screen on her existing iMac with the Mac Mini? Although she has commented a few times on my ultra wide monitor so I think she may like something like that eventually.
 
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