I got a new laptop, very fast and swanky. So how come my audio latency is higher than on my old machine (given that it’s the same OS, same USB audio interface and the same device driver)?

Turns out I needed to do a few optimisation tweaks, which I’d already done on my old machine but had done piecemeal over time and had basically forgotten about. Found this handy article at Focusrite’s website which sums up pretty much everything that you need to know, though: Optimising your PC for Audio on Windows 10 – Focusrite Audio Engineering