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I bought a Presonus Firebox before I bought the Firepod. I love my Firebox but I needed more XLR Inputs. It was a logical choice when someone offered to sell there's to me for a good price.
I use a Macbook with 2.2ghz, 4GB of ram, and a 320GB HDD. I also run Logic 9 for my main DAW and occasionally Ableton.
I use this as my main firewire device in my studio. I also use it outside of the studio to do onsite band recordings (a little business I am working on). It takes all of my drum mics (4), as well as one bass and one guitar mic and a two vocal mics. I run the Vocal mics through a ART MPA gold preamp first. I also run directs out of the instruments via DI Boxes into the back for even more options.
Besides the XLR and 1/4" jacks you also have Digital ins and outs and 2 Firewire ports (Computer Connection and Daisy chain), oh yeah, and Midi in/out.