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3 members of MIT's Imara Project recently took a trip to the pacific island nation of Fiji. They weren't going for the white sand beaches or crystal clear waters. Instead they were on a mission.

Thanks to a donation from the Google Open Source Programme Office the Imara members were carrying ten laptops for the rural school district of Taveuni.

Jonathan Proulx explains why they went with laptops rather than desktop systems. "We chose laptops for the project, both for shipping concerns (shipping PCs to developing nations tends to be prohibitively expensive) and because electrical power isn't available at all the school locations. We used Lenovo Thinkpad R52s due to their large screens, low cost, and Linux-friendly components."