Audio Interface Compatability Questions

Hi... New here as of today, but have recorded before:
 
60's rig: Piano, Hammond, Theremin, ping-ponging with old Dictaphone units that cut directly to vinyl records.
70's: + minimoog, strings, & ponging with a couple Tascam 4 track reel-to-reels
80's: + Rolands, Korgs, etc, Twelve Tone Systems Cakewalk (DOS)
90's: ~20 rack-feet of modules, Twelve Tone Cakewalk Pro for Windows 2.
00's: Sonar 7 Producer (xp) with Motu 896hd  [only used on one longish song].
Now: ~ 8 rack-feet of synths & outboard gear, ... replaced the KX-88 with a moXF8.
 
Planning to get Sonar Platinum, a new i7 laptop (w Thunderbolt 3), and probably an Antelope Zen Tour, or a UA Apollo Twin.
 
Curious if any of you are using Splat on a laptop interfaced with a Zen Tour (or, UA Apollo) via Thunderbolt?
 
Any suggestions on Tbolt enabled laptops you're running Splat on? 
 
Suggestions about audio interfaces with Tbolt?
 
Anything I forgot to ask?
 
Nice forum !  Learned a lot in the past day or so, and thanks in advance for any advice.

Ya Thunderbolt seems like a Mac thing that never really was nailed down on a PC. And interface wise the only name that everyone agrees on is RME. It all depends on how many channels you need for  live recording. 
I can record 16 tracks with an old W7 duo core and a cheap Tascam USB interface. 

Hey Johnny V (think we worked on a movie before.. did you used to spell it "Johnny 5"?),
 
I'm just going to be recording alone at home, but will probably expand as time goes on, so not sure what that might require (being the future, and such).  In the past, my tendency has been tons of tracks.
 
Thinking on using a lot of the fx (in the shark, or whatever)  processors running inside the audio interface(s) [zen or Apollo, or ?].... you know, the retro gear & particularly the reverbs. This is so I don't have to use the i7 for that stuff. Some of the interfaces have quad & octal expanders for even more outboard hardware processors for fx.
 
So if I'm using these outboard digital fx from within Splat as plug-ins, its going to put more of a load on the connection between the laptop and interface. Also there's always that latency bit, which with Tbolt is only a couple milliseconds.
 
 

RME.