A dedicated Logic website (ala Pro Tools)...what say you?

If you've read my post regarding Spectrasonic's free RMX quicktime tutorials or Luis G's post offering free tech support to users on this forum, you may now be thinking along the same lines as I am...why isn't there a dedicated website (not just an Apple discussion page) for registered Logic Pro users?!
With enthusiasts like Luis and myself offering our skills for free, how much effort would it really take on Apple's part to get the ball rolling? I am envisioning a site akin to Digidesign's (imagine a monthly Logic E-Zine like Pro Tools has for their users?!) but with a focus on Quicktime tutorials featuring tips and tricks for all registered users.
At the very least, Apple could dedicate some web space to a new user community (ala Spectrasonics or Native Instruments). However, if Apple chose to get more actively involved, it would be to everybody's benefit.
If you'd like to see something like this happen, please speak up by either showing your support in this thread or sending your feedback to Apple.
Thanks for listening

I find that soooooo amusing and @ our facility we had quite a few laughs about this great word of advice - The greatest thing was that the advice came from the operator of the site - who supposedly a LOGIC CERTIFIED PRO!!!!
And he was correct, IMO.
I agree with tbird here: unless your hard drives get extremely full, defrag will do almost nothing. Optimization - which is a different issue - might not do much either. If your drives are allowed to become full, that's bad practice anyway, and simply freeing up 30%+ will do some good.
You might want to read this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
and a huge amount of bench mark reports, whilte papers and testing resources on line from drive manufacturers, almost all of which will explain why defragging large drives is p*ssing in the wind.

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