Interesting enough, your tablet is the same processor, RAM, and storage as mine, except your Atom is clocked at 1.83ghz where my Atom Z3735G is clocked at 1.33ghz.

Which tablet do you have? I'm curious what the hardware difference might be.

I thought the same thing you are saying, but when I reinstalled Win 10 from scratch and am comparing to how it is now with Win 8.1 the difference is beyond noticeable in performance. I'm sticking...

Well Dell shipped me a thumbdrive with their Windows 8.1 32-bit image on it. I reflashed it to my tablet and the difference from Win 10 32 bit to Win 8.1 32 bit is night and day on 1 GB of RAM. It...

Thank you all for your replies. Comparing Win 10 on my Venue 11 Pro with 4gb RAM to this tablet, to my Precision laptop, work desktop, etc, I've resolved to regress to Win 8.1 and avoid 10 on this...

I've decided I will use Win 8.1 on this tablet. I have an OTG cable and Dell support sent me a reinstall thumbdrive with the Win 8.1 32bit Dell image.

swagger, before responding without sounding ignorant, I decided to do a 5 second web search. See the image below:
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As you'll see, Win 10 32 bit only requires 1gb, which I have. im not...

My apologies, I should have been specific. I do have Win 10 x86 installed, but compared to Win 8.1 x86 it is much slower.

The tablet is not upgradeable. It ships with 1gb and upgrading is not an option, and you didn't answer the question I originally posted.

I have a Dell Venue 8 Pro with 1gb pf RAM and it seems generally slower with Win 10 than Win 8.1. I've compared fresh installs of both OSes and Win 10 is noticeably slower to me. What have you guys /...

It ultimately will depend on the BIOS / UEFI firmware of your device. I know on my tablet an SD card is bootable only if it is formatted as GPT with an EFI boot partition. Older BIOSes should be fine...