I'm running Windows 10 on an Atom Z3740 1,3GHz tablet with 2 GB of RAM, and it's more than enough for simple browsing, watching photos and videos, reading etc. CPU is at 2-3% in idle, and that's with the CPU even running slower when it's in idle state for a while.
XMIT wrote: ↑That's a very broad statement.
Yes, you're right, too broad a statement in its generality, but the context here was this:
Also despite having 8gb of ram on this system my usage is constantly at about 25% and its all system stuff like windows and Intel things.
This is definitely not normal, and it should be as easy/hard to find out what causes this as it would be with a similar problem on Linux (open process manager and have a look). Especially, I wouldn't expect it to be something that can't be turned off (if it's something unwanted).