I use an i5 with 8gb and a 5400 rpm hard drive.

its a very powerful software (make sure you have room on hard drive and good memory).

They wanted me to wipe my MacBook hard drive and reformat - a completely outdated and wrong solution

One can reduce latency through the use of external hard drives and solid state devices - assuming your CPU is powerful enough

and I'm recording to an external hard drive and no issues whatsoever.

Totally clean and quiet I/O. Plus, I love the look of the box