Z21 / Lots of (critital) processes?

I noticed that my Z21 has about 99 processes running after boot and idling for a few minutes. On my old BZ12 there are only about 70. I use pretty much the same software suites, anti virus etc. Only major difference is that I have left my old BZ12 with windows 7 32 bit.

I know the raid controller, wwan, pmd support etc. require more proprietary processes and services and I have nothing to complain about speed issues, but is this normal nowadays?

Cheers

 

Doesn't seem extravagant to me, though it might be a little on the high side (comparing with my Z1).

Sony's crapware is usually the culprit...have you uninstalled all of the usual suspects? Check the Z1 owner's FAQ and thread for lists, I'm sure the same Sony crapware persists through PC generations...

 

Problem is that somehow a lot of stuff is more interlinked than is logically explainable. Without Smart Network for example, the wwan card is not recognized and usable...
Tampering with all the ssd raid software may break it completely, right?

 

I was able to get to 8W of power used in custom batetry mode, I gues, that this is a limit, when CPU is most time idle, so I don't see this as a big issue.

I used this guide Black Viper’s Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Service Configurations | Black Viper's Website | www.blackviper.com and went for htweaked configurations with services. And now I am with firefox and Nokia suite and dexpot and logitech on 98 processes.

 

8W ?! I didn't even know our CPUs could scale that low, I thought the i5 I had could not scale under 50%... is that because of the new chipsets in the Z2 or could the Z1 yield this kind of low-power scaling? What battery life do you get with this?

To get back to the original question. Yes, I kept some sony utilites, off the top of my head Smart Network, Intel RST for RAID and garbage collection, VAIO Update cause i like to use it for drivers and whatnot, but that's about it. Check the FAQs they contain all of this information.