Windows 10 on 32GB EMCC setup
Windows 10 on 32GB EMCC setup
It's doable with careful planning. A 32g EMCC drive is tight, but you can keep things running smoothly without constant fixes. Using an SD card for extra storage helps avoid the hassle of limited internal space and keeps updates manageable. Just make sure the hardware supports the extra capacity and you're comfortable handling it yourself.
I owned a Win 8 EMMC tablet. It really resisted updates. One day, I hurled it against a wall for no reason.
The standard Windows 10 setup requires around 15 to 20 gigabytes of free space. You should be okay as long as you monitor your storage usage.
As Salv8 mentioned, it is possible, of course you'll get less than 32GB as the drive will be formatted, and you'll have the recovery partition. However, it is possible, you'll be tight on space. Now, there was a leak of sorts in Windows Insider Preview build of Windows 10 when you do a clean install, where you have this new edition called "Windows 10 Lean" (obviously not official name, and it was said from journalist who has internal sources of MS that they are just experimenting and might never be anything official), but it was Windows 10 stripped down. You don't have Regedit (registry editor), although you can grap it from Windows 10 Home/Pro and run it under Lean just fine, and you don't even have a wallpaper. The OS was said to fit on system featuring 16GB of storage only as a end goal. That said, 32GB should be fine for Windows 10 normally, you should have space for Office, and maybe a few apps, with some free storage for Windows Update, but you want to definitely use external storage device like a microSD card slot if your device support this, or cloud based storage solution like OneDrive (if you have Office 365, you have 1TB OneDrive space). Your biggest problem is that eMMC is slllllllloooooooowww compared to a nice fast SSD of these days and not helped by the usual extra slow CPU, which usually is an Atom, and the limited RAM on those system taxes more the eMMC. That said, performance for basic usage like watching a video, reading, or Office usage should be fine. You have to be patient when doing intensive things, and as mentioned Windows Updates are pretty intensive for such slow system, so you'll need to be patient each time. Maybe disable sleep, leave it plugged it and let the OS update overnight,