Ah yeah, good plan.
Yep, Apple's using Intel processors now.
Sudden increase in audio interface latency in Live...
No way. Something isn't right. I'm even getting clicks and stutters when I am not syncing Live or even recoding for that matter. I never had these issues until I upgraded my OS and driver. My machine's specs should still be fine than for what I do, since I haven't changed my work flow much, and there was no issue in the past. I reported the problem to M-Audio. To bad I upgraded both at the same time, cause now I can't narrow down the source.
"It's more fun to compute". Yeah, when you know what you're doing!