iMac 2009 upgrade Question

I have an iMac 2009 (20 ") with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB RAM, 640 GB SATA HDD and running OS X 10.9.5. I know this machine is 'old', but I want to upgrade a new OS and get some speed back (lots of ball rotation range, especially using Safari). I get the runaround from people at the local store simply Mac, that push to get me to buy a new system. I think with most recent - especially the SSD - HDD I can upgrade to El Capitan and extend the life of this wonderful machine... especially since I can't afford or justify the purchase of new at the moment. Your thoughts?

IF you upgrade your ram to 8 GB and the switch on the rotation for one SSD HARD drive you will swear that you have a new machine. My late 2009 with 16 GB of ram and SSD never sees a spinning beachball. Mine is a quad core i5 processor, but I bet you'd be happy.

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