Apple Overhauling Logic?

Much speculation today on Digg, Ars Technica, and Create Digital Music on whether Apple is overhauling ditching Logic in favor of a new DAW that uses a touch screen interface and competes more directly with Pro Tools.

It's an interesting proposition, and Logic is certainly in need of an update - hopefully one that will make its notoriously arcane interface more intuitive and, well, "Appley."

On the Pro Tools front, I am continuing to research Pro Tools after my long and disappointing experience with Logic Express. But now I am having trouble differentiating the MBox 2 Factory from the similarly-priced MBox 2 Pro. I know the MBox 2 Factory is a USB interface and comes with additional plugins and the Pro drops the plugins but sports a Firewire interface, but is that it? If so, I'll probably go with the non-Pro factory version. Firewire is nice (I have it on my Edirol FA-66), but not critical. And doesn't Pro Tools require a stupid USB dongle while in use? Lame.