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I would say a good number of those processes/cores are something you don't want running. And you can't turn them off unless you can modify the boot partition to disable the launch configs.

sigh.

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most of them are needed at one time or another.

also a mandatory: and yet the macbooks are faster and more battery efficient than any PC laptop with linux/windows

Most of them don’t do anything at all until needed.

Ok, what about the smaller half that do?

I at least tend to need those! Other people, maybe not so much!

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