Mbox Micro or Mbox Mini w/ Logic

Anyone here had any experience w/ an Mbox Micro (or Mbox Mini) and Logic ? Are they in any way compatible ??? Our band has been doing some recordings in Pro Tools LE 8, and I want to be able to work on the mixes on my downtime. However for work and my own projects, I mainly use Logic and wouldn't mind an external interface (I find my MBP's internal soundcard to be quite noisy, expecially when I'm running a second monitor using the DVI output...).
Thus ideally an interface that runs both Logic and Pro tools - perhaps an MBox Micro ???

The new Mbox series is about to be released so you may want to wait until then considering they're advertised to work with all DAWs.
http://www.sweetwater.com/feature/ptmbox/

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