The RAM in this machine is 1GB. This is a bit lower than average for most laptops and is usually the amount for very low budget laptops. It will still run day to day applications such as email, internet and word processing ok but running more than a few applications at once will cause slowdown and games will struggle to run well.
This has a good size screen for a laptop, it is about average for a laptop. You shouldn't have a problem reading any text from applications, and you should be able to see quite a bit of content in most applications without scrolling