Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

[Chris Gehlker]

On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> But it [the iLife suite] does so in a completely and totally locked  
> down fashion.  All files are sucked in, converted to the iLife  
> formats, and good luck ever trying to get them out again.

I don't understand what you mean here. I haven't used iLife that much  
but i was able to export pictures from iPhoto in TIFF or JPEG and  
Music from Garage Band as MIDI.
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