Logic X with rMBP SSD 16gb RAM insane CPU problem.

Hi, just got a brand new MacBookPro retina SSD 2.3 Ghz Intel Core i7, 16 gb RAM. The reason I bought this was because I was told it shall solve efficiency problems when working with LogicPro. Well, it didnt. It acts 10 times worse than my older MacBook. A few instances of native synths and plugs completely freak out my CPU. Just having Logic open eats up 56% of my CPU. On my older MacBook (with 8gigs Ram and a regular HD) I could run huge sessions with no CPU spike ever!!
This is insane, why is it happening? I updated to the latest version of LogicProX, my processing threads in Logic are set to 4. Buffer size set to minimum an I still get annoying latency and unecceptable CPU crackle - like when I was working FL studio on a crappy PC a decade ago... All that, on the latest "bad-***" laptop there is out there.... Is there any hope to work professionaly with this machine, or did I just waste a lot of money?
P.s. I use a Metric Halo 2882 firewire interface connected via Thunderbolt. I tried to listen to the session after swithcing to built-in, same problems occure...
H e e e l p ! ! ! !
Thanks : (

my processing threads in Logic are set to 4. Buffer size set to minimum an I still get annoying latency and unecceptable CPU crackle -
If you didn't mistype.....
You have set up things completely the opposite to what you need for your setup.... and so, to help prevent the issues...
Go to LPX's audio prefs... and try the following;
Your i7 has 8 cores not just 4.. (4 real and 4 virtual) so set according...
Having the I/O Buffer size set to minimum increases the loads on the system, not decreases.. so change that setting... If you have it set to 32, increase it to 64 or even 128 or 256 samples... and test with each change to see how you get on....
Also what do the actual latency figures show.. (Just below I/O buffer size...) after each change...
Finally, check what you have set the Process Buffer Range to.... If it's set to small.. set it to medium and test... and then to large and test.... and again see how you get on.

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