Just wanted to double check here before swooping one of these second hand. I believe the USB 3.0 backwards compatibility issue has been resolved, correct? I’m running a late 2012 MBPretina 13in with only USB 3.0 ports…
If you are using windows 7 (havent tried on 8 yet) i wouldnt do it.. My audio 2 crashes the OS if I plug it in through usb 3. For MAC i have no idea. I got it to work on my laptop through the usb 2 slot ( i have one of those) but latley ive been having some troubles with this one too where windows doesnt recognize the audio 2.
In general I would advise you to borrow from someone to try first, if possible. From my experience with the NI soundcards + windows usage I would not recommend buying before testing. I would expect apple computeres to work tho, as most dj equipment is made with their OS in mind.