Quite normal.
Mine's currently sat at 90 processes, 3% CPU, and 73% physical memory, and it's a few years old.
Physical memory is the stuff you can open the computer up and point at. As opposed to e.g. hard drive space used as swapfile. Incidentally, you don't mention the operating system you're using, or the amount of physical memory installed in your laptop either (so the 'quite normal' above is a provisional reply
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Anyway, if you have a brand new laptop, ensure you remove most of the bundled free crap and only install what you want.
HTH.
Mike.