8 Core Harpertown with Nirvana of RAM - Logic 8 is Slower than Ever....

Hi There,
So I have completed installing Logic 8.0.1, and I ran all the updates. Repaired permissions etc. Have about 4 Audio Units installed and use Logic for doing midi only. All audio drivers open are Core Audio.
Now I used to run the same setup on a G5 2.3 GHZ and it was OK. Now I am on the fasted CPU that apple makes and Logic has never been running slower. resizing a window is amazingly slow and NON real-time. And I am on a huge NVIDIA graphic card with 512 MB RAM. When I double click a midi region the piano roll slowly works it way up and I am filled with awe that the State-of-the-Art has become so slow. Logic 7 on a PPC was blazingly fast when drawing a comparison. Is Logic getting slower with each upgrade. I had a region that was 16 bar long. I open it in the piano roll and was zoomed in so I could see 1 bar ahead. I wanted to copy a note from the beginning to the end of the 16 bar region - so I option dragged it to the right. The speed at which Logic moved the contents of the window to the right was comparable to a slow fast forward. This I used to do in a blaze on L7.
Screen sets are taking so much longer to load than L8 Leopard and L7 Leopard. Seriously - when PT 741 is maxed out with TDM's and RTAS playing heavy edits with 64 tracks the screen response is pretty darn slow - but it is still more than twice as fast as Logic playing with NO audio instruments merely addressing 8 external midi machines.
Can someone shed some light on this...
To make sure that my setup wasn'T screwed - I re-installed OS X on a separate partition and re-installed Logic as well... Thus I had two identical setup. Both were similar slow. So I went to my dealership and tested the screen response of their Harpertown - 3.0GHZ 8 GB RAM - and guess what the screen response was exactly as slow.
Now, I WOULD consider myself a fast editor - but I aint so fast that I could make PT even hick up. Are the users of L8 adapting to the slowness and have they forgotten how lightning fast Logic used be???
I may be able to instantiate more plugs with this setup but L8 definitely ran a whole lot faster on the G5. So much for Logic 8 being optimized for Leopard and Intel.

So here's an update...
I tried once again reinstalling only booting without ANY audio drivers loaded. Still the same thing.
So I thought to myself: Hey, lets call the colleges in the other studios where I know they use Logic. I called 5 studios distributed over Germany (This is where Logic has it's broadest clientele. 3 of them said - "Since Logic 8 came out we had to switch to Protools. Another said" I had to switch to Digital Performer as Logic was just too slow and gave me NO performance compared to prior versions. The last one was still on Logic and as I asked him about the screen slowness he started breathing heavily. And said "This is killing me, Logic used to be so fast and now with every new version it gets slower and worse. I am tired of waiting and have already gotten quotes on a PT HD|2 system."
So it seems that I am NOT the only one thinking this is annoying. I called 5 studios who smiled at me 3 years ago when I left Logic as main DAW for PT... Today, they have or are about to switch to different DAWs.
That sums it up pretty much for - I am heading back to L7 - until I have converted my about 250 songs that I still need to produce. Then Logic will probably be removed from my CPU - unless of course they pull up some magic stunts from DAW bag of trix
Thanks to you who took the time to reply

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