Will This Work!?, will this setup work? Options

[lucky13]

Hey everyone just a little ..actually a lot of help needed. I want to start recording my band at home, have been considering a number of options and ive come up with this, bearing in mind im a student earning pittance and cant afford high end equipment. First up the 1.42 ghz mac mini. I really, REALLY want this as im going to be travelling a lot and dont have much space at home, it suits my needs/budget perfectly. So what kinda configuration of software and mixers would be appropriate for this? The band is a 5 piece death metal band (vocals, guitars, Bass, Drums and Keys) and we'd ideally like to all go through mic'd up amps rather than going directly into the computer..if you get what i mean :S I looked at the ALESIS MultiMix8 USB and reckon that if we plugged that into the USB of the mini mac and then plugged mics into the alesis ..hopefully we could record using garageband which is included with the mini mac. All the tracks would be done separately but we need the number of inputs on the mixer for the drums, cos its a bigarse kit n needs a fair few mics to sound good. Does this all sound like its got a cat in hells chance of working? is there anything that i might have missed? or have i got the wrong end of this whole recording malarkey!? help would be very much appreciated! thanks in advance.

Rory

[lucky13]

well im gonna be boosting the RAM on the mini mac up to a GIG and its got the G4 1.42ghz processer, 80GB hard drive and ive got an extra 160GB external hard drive which ill hook up. So all in all its a capaple little thing which im sure will be able to run some kind of version of logic even if its not the latest ..which i cant afford anyway!
The firebox is the firepods little brother right? Well if it works for you then im sure big bro firepod can handle my band! at the moment im running a fairly old PC with windows and have been recording on ACID pro, which is good..but i cant take the whole damn pc to uni next year..hence the change. so let me get this right ...please correct me!
the mic is hooked up to the presonus firepod, the firepod is then hooked up to the minimac via firewire and then it records the sounds the mic is picking up with Logic!? does that sound alrite?

where does latency come in all of this? the firepod says it has zero latency monitoring... will that cancel out latency then? and one more query ... the soundcard, now i dont know really how macs work, but is this going to be a problem in anyway ie the soundcard is not powerful enough/nonexistant/prefers jazz to heavy metal?
i must sound really really sad!
Thanks tho

Rory