Any opinions on choosing hardware for a studio/mobil rig?

I currently have an ADK built Daw in my studio with a pro 40 and I light-piped in an ADA8000 for a total of 16 analog in's.  I have 2 clubs that would like to be able to have me come do some live recordings of the bands sometimes.  On these occasions the club would pay me to run sound for the night and the bands would then have the option to pay me for a good solid mixdown of the set.  Nothing fancy just eq, compression, levels, panning, and send it.   So I have been thinking of buying a digital mixer that will run via firewire as a controller too for in the studio.  I probably could get away with 16 channels on this new board but would rather grow into a board than spend a bunch of money and then outgrow it.  I am down to the Presonus 24.4.2 Studio/live or the Behringer X32. 
   Both are going to require me getting a nice case for them, for mobile use I will need to buy a good snake as well.  
*The Presonus looks good but will require me to also buy a laptop and a firewire card for it to record outside my studio.
* The Behringer  x32 is a behringer yes... but!  the had just acquired Midas and this board is the 1st of the "hybrid" of the behringer (generally entry level junk), and the Midas (high end audio gear).  I noticed when my band opened for Sevendust this past year that they were running an X32 for the front of house.  I asked the tech before the show what he thought of it and he said it was the best board he had ever run, that it was midas with a behringer name tag on it, that the pres were clean & the controls and layout were top notch and really intuitive.  It looks great and this board can record all of the Wave files of the tracks, busses, mains etc. to a thumbdrive in the top of the console (no computer needed for remote recordings!)  That alone is bad as hell! It unlike the presonus has motorized faders for in studio automation, and you can add plugins/updates to the on-board DSP but, from what I gather, this board does not play nice with Sonar, it has a much bigger footprint, and I will likely never need 32 channels at one time.
 
I can't decide what the hell I want to do here!  I am putting together $2500-$3000 to achieve my goals here one way or another.

Hey Chuck would this work? Its got 16 ins and outs and recorders to ipad if you got one. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DL1608L/

The presonus has a good reputation and it has been around awhile.
 
The b-word would probably be OK, for a couple of years before the whole thing gives way or you lose something important on it.  It depends upon how much money you think you'll make and how long you want to keep the gear for.  Anything over 3 years definately the presonus.  If you aren't sure about the money to be made, probably the B.  If you start making good money it is all gravy.  IF not, you haven't lost as much.
 
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