Using mbox 2 and a white macbook

anyone have experience using didesign Mbox 2 and a white macbook 2.00 ghz and pro tools Le. The digi website doesn't specify compatibility yet.
tnhx

Okay, just set up my Mbox and downloaded PTLE 7.1.1. Mind you I have the original Mbox, but except for the analog or digital input vs. the analog and digital input the interfacing should be similar enough to not make much of a difference.
Install was fine. First launch was pretty quick. No 3rd party plug-ins installed at the moment.
Opened a session with 28 audio tracks, numerous Aux's, and a Master track. It has a few plug-ins enabled, but most of the plug-ins originally used where Waves and/or Sony Oxford, so they are disabled at this time, also originally had two Altiverbs, so those are also disabled.
At first hitting play caused an immediate stop. I opened up the Playback Engine options and changed from Buffer level 8 (which it was already set to for some reason) to the default of 2. Now playback worked fine, but I was stopped a couple of times for CPU holding off USB bandwidth.
I then upped the Buffer level to 4, and for the most part had no problems. The only time I got stopped with an error message is occasionally when I would either hit stop, or do a RTZ while playing. Both of those are trivial as they stop playback/record anyway.
Two possible reasons for my problems:
1. In setting up in a quick and dirty fashion, I was playing the session off the internal driver, rather than from my firewire drive I would normally use for a session.
2. I have the stock 512MB RAM config right now. This is one reason I didn't go to a lot of trouble with tweaking and using the correct drives. I have 2GB of RAM arriving tomorrow. I'll retest then to see if the errors continue, and maybe do a bit more tweaking.
Initial prognosis is pretty good. Much better than when I first tried my 001 system on my 8600/300 back in the day... (I was able to get 24 tracks with a good sounding reverb plug with that system, some would call that a miracle, especially as it was never an approved system.)

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