hi im just making the change from garage band to cubase. Everyone told me this was a good move and i was wondering if anyone could give me any hints. thanks

Actually SX is the least effecient of all the Mac DAWs, to find others with same pain go to
http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/

Wouldn't agree with you there. Tried a demo of live 5 last week. Maxed out playing a 2 bar loop with 4 vsti's and 2 effects. Opened up cubase to see how it compared using the same instuments, patches etc and cpu sat at 40%.

Live runs OK on my powerbook, started choking around 16 tracks of VI(much more than I got out of SX). It also has a limited freeze function for freeing up cpu.

Couldn't use live as my main app, but I use it for quick sketches.