A:AnswerThat will largely depend on what you're wanting to be able to do for your schooling! For online research and writing papers, though, several members of our staff recommend a minimum of 8G of random-access-memory to ensure that your computer is able to smoothly run Windows, as well as your other tasks.
A:AnswerThis computer can run Steam but do note that Steam is only software which allows you to purchase and download games. Those games would have their own system requirements as well.