Canon Elura 100 campatability with mac

My handycam is dying and need a new camera for home movies - not doing anything really technical, but editing in iMovie. So far, even though it is a few years old, I'm finding great reviews for the Canon Elura 100 using a miniDV format to decrease compression. It is not on the list provided my mac and wondering if anyone knows if it is compatible before I buy. Looking to buy online so I can't try it before I buy it. It does have a Firewire for export.
Thanks.

I just bought the Canon Elura 100 (in February 09, got it for about 279, its last years model so I got it on close out). It works just great with my Mac, plug and play it was immediately recognized for import into imovie, well at least that was on system 10.4 and using my old version of imovie from 2006. I have yet to try it with imovie 09 which I did just recently installed last Friday, along with a system upgrade to Leopard, I have yet to see if the camera will still work as smooth with imovie 09. I am trying to adjust to learning how to use imovie 09 and having a great bit of frustration. Anyway over all Elura 100 is great little camera.

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