The document is a report on laptop and PC use habits among students at American International University Bangladesh (AIUB). It begins with an introduction letter and preface, then provides background on laptop history in Bangladesh and AIUB students. The report details a survey conducted on AIUB students to understand their laptop and PC usage patterns for academic and other purposes. Graphs and pie charts are used to analyze the survey data and show most students use laptops/PCs daily, especially for tasks like writing assignments, accessing online materials, and entertainment. The conclusion is that laptop/PC use has become an important part of academic culture at AIUB and helps students gain computer skills valued by employers.

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Laptop / pc use habits in academia:
A detailed survey on AIUB students
A report submitted to the Department of English, AIUB, in part-fulfillment of the requirements
of the final examination in Business Communication, spring semester 2016
Prepared & Submitted by
Kaniteen Arefin
Student id: 15-30004-2
Business Communication (FSIT), Section: G.
Submitted to
Mehedi Kayser Pabitra
Lecturer
Department of English
Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Date of Submission
8th April, 2016
American International University Bangladesh.
(AIUB)

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April 8, 2016
Mehedi KayserPabitra
Course instructor, Business Communication
Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, AIUB
Subject: Submission of Report
Sir,
It is my pleasant opportunity to submit this report entitled by “Laptop/ pc use habits in
academia: detailed survey on AIUB students” based on the requirement of the final term
examination of business communication, an exclusive and important course under you.
Computer has captured the whole scope of a student’s life very significantly. It is used widely
both for academic and supportive academic purpose. Fresher graduates from any respective
departments are highly recommended and most often it becomes major focused requirement to
be habituated with computer technology. Computer technology is such a buzzword that any topic
linked to the necessity and impact of computer, becomes lighter enough due to the shadow of the
computer technology ocean. Perhaps it is the most important tool in today’s world in every
sector. Laptop is a very famous type of computer because it is easy to carry, lighter, small in
size, portable to anywhere, runs on battery for a long time and so on. It has gained its availability
among students. From the very first day of student’s life till the end of professional life one must
feel the necessity of a laptop pc. This report highlights the result of a study on laptop habits and
runs through all the direction of the study flows.
Finally I am really grateful to you for giving me the opportunity to work on the report. Your
entire instruction, tips and tricks, report writing format lesson, and lastly my little effort leads me
to the successful completion of the report. You had a wonderful effort to teach how to write
report properly. Despite this, mistakes might arise as I am beginner or such report writing, I
sincerely admit this.
Best regards
_______________
Kaniteen Arefin.

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Preface
For the first time I tried to work on report writing with the help of special guidelines by Mehedi Kayser
Pabitra Sir, my honorable course instructor on business communication. I considered myself very
fortunate because I got him as instructor. Topic selection was the proof of intelligence by Pabitra Sir. I
had to run through almost all the direction to learn report writing properly. I believe this content will help
the other beginners like me.
I came with the topic “laptop use habits of students”. For the completion of the report I had to
make a survey on unknown peoples. While asking various questions to other unknown students, firstly I
felt shy but very soon this task turned into my strength from weakness. They helped me a lot. It was
really very nice experience for me. This practice results in good communicative skills with unknown
people and confidence of ability in me. I found everyone very sincere and most important thing is that I
came to learn some new way of using laptop which I haven’t implemented previously but going to be
habituated from next. I realized sharing experience increases boundary of learning, enhance possibilities
to growing up. Readers of this article can be benefited in three ways. They can have idea about report
format, they might came to know how other people are using the ever wondering discover of science
“laptop” in their academic life and finally the necessity of laptop in academic life, ways of usage,
advantage, drawback,some new wide practice in laptop habits.
Later of the content covers the area of laptop evolution, brief background of AIUB and its student’s
community, most common features of laptop, present statistics on some of specific fact related to laptop
habit on AIUB students.

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Acknowledgement
Inside of my mind at first I would like to admit the kindness of almighty Allah. He has given me the
mental and physical ability. Then I would like to thanks Mehedi Kayser Pabitra Sir for giving me the
pleasant opportunity to work with the report. But before giving this opportunity his contribution to
prepare me cannot be described in word. It would not been possible without the guidelines of him. So
thanks to him again.
Then special thanks my elder Kawsanur Arefin (MBA at AIUB) sister for her consistent help and advice.
She is the source of my motivation. She helped me a lot to complete the task.
Now it is turn for those people who helped me in context of completing survey. Thanks to them for their
efficient reply to my questionnaires and sincerity.
And finally I will not forget to say thanks to all my friends and classmates. They helped to make my
concept clear on report writing in class room. Moreover I have discussed my problems whenever I faced
regarding this task and they gave me a nice solution and inspirations.

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Table of Contents
Title Page 1
Forwarding Letter 2
Preface 3
Acknowledgment 4
Table of Contents 5
List of Illustrations 6
Abstract 7
1.0 Introduction _______________________________________________________ 8-9
1.1 Evolution of laptop history in Bangladesh__________________________ 9-10
1.2 A brief background of AIUB students_______________________ 11-12
1.3 Common features/function of laptop_____________________________ 13
1.4 Check before buying__________________________________________ 13-14
1.5 Common academic use of laptop/pc_____________________________ 15-16
2.0 Research and methodology____________________________________________ 17
2.1 purpose of the study___________________________________________ 17
2.2 procedure of the study_________________________________________ 17
2.3 questionnaire_________________________________________________ 18-19
3.0 Graph on data analysis________________________________________________ 20-26
4.0 Conclusion_________________________________________________________ 27-28
5.0 Recommandation____________________________________________________ 29

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List of illustration
Table 1: Common function in laptop
Table 2: Check while buying
Table 3: Common academic use of laptop by AIUB students
Graph1: Department wise laptop/pc using rate.
Pie chart 1: Purpose of using laptop/pc by students.
Pie chart 2: Preferable device for academic purpose.
Pie chart 3: Most frequent academic task.
Pie chart 4: Overall laptop/pc using rate on various purpose.

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Abstract
In the current world, it’s almost impossible to imagine that someone can live without computers.
Computers have become an electronic device of almost every day use for individuals of every age. They
are essential in almost all the business dealings that are made nowadays. The most that any industry has
gained from the discovery of the computers is the business industry because of its nature. Computers have
gained significance as they have improved the efficiency and productivity of work done. Large amounts
of information in industrial and business sectors as well as in the personal lives are stored on computers.
Computers can help businesses by making their staff efficient and productive and also save their valuable
time in any business or office. Computers in schools will help the learners to comprehend the basic
concepts better with the help of video or audio examples. Computers in higher learning institutions will
help the professors and researchers to do their work very fast and in an efficient and better way and also
help them to share the same knowledge with their other members of staff. Computers become a vital
gadget in several sectors; railways, banking, electricity, telephone departments, shopping carts etc are just
but a few of them. Computers are also used in the medical industry to help doctors in diagnosing the
diseases quickly and efficiently. All the administrative systems, whether private or public are now using
computers and this practice can be evident in every part of the world.
Computers have also helped the media and the entertainment industries. Be it a multi-million dollars
movie or a two minutes commercial, computers have changed the usual concept of providing
entertainment to the public. With the computer business growing so fast, the computer industry has also
brought about an invention. Tablets, palmtops, and laptops have replaced the desktops. With the decrease
in size, it has become very easy to carry the computer and use them anywhere you are to the fullest.
The importance of computers in our daily lives can be judged by the number of people using them each
single day. Computer is not only used by professionals, but also by the little children and grownups at our
homes.
University students nowadays have a trend of using laptop/pc just because of its cool
advantage. It runs without even plugging in to AC current. Everything is built in and
lighters enough to carry out. A survey on AIUB students show that 60% male
students are fully habituated with bringing laptop and work on it almost all day.
45% female students do the same. Using laptop has been a culture of AIUB. AIUB
creates professional skilful graduates. Their students are very smart and intelligent.
They are really doing well in the job sector of Bangladesh for their subjective and
supportive knowledge on computer technology.

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1.0. Introduction
Computers play important role in student life, on the other hand importance of computer
education to students is so high, these two complementary sentences makes student bound to be
habituated with computers. It doesn’t mean that students are forced to be habituated with
computers against their wish. Rather the reality is students are just fond of computers. Computer
makes our everyday world much easier and it is true for every sector of life. Modern world is
fully dependent on computer technology. Professional persons cannot think of a day without it.
It has both commercial and non commercial use. It can influence everyone’s life in some other
way that’s why computer has been a part of our life. The way it is interconnected with our life
and the variety use of computer in a wide range of sector is not possible to finish by describing.
It is the ever wondering discover of science and most useful electronic device in the world.
Fastest execution power, restless working, and accuracy of result are the reason of its popularity.
One can do anything he wants by the help of computer. Garments industry checks the quality of
their production, run and maintain hydro generic machine by computers. Pharmaceuticals use
computer as an auto controller of heavy machine and make sensitive drugs. Chemical industry
also uses it to calculate thin molecular chemical properly and control dump, medical science
takes the great advantage of it. Computer controlled robot can make successful surgery. Some
often computer can troubleshoot problems and cure without operation. It is widely used to the lab
for manipulating medical test report. Advance electronic circuit simulation, power plant
implementation, banking sector, spaceship authentication, natural resources digging sector,
construction of housing, education board, multimedia class room, data management, social
networking, electronic books, mail, communication, calculation, making presentation, getting
entertainment everything is controlled by computer. Contribution of computer on education is
vast. Nowadays teacher takes class through projectors, delivers note through mail service,
publish result online. It has made education life easier. Solid physics, chemical bonding,
transmission flow and many other difficult topics are easy now for 3d visualization. Moreover
students get notification from university online, submit their assignment online. As computer
dominate education sector like all other site of life students are normally dependent on it.

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Computer is a great source of entertainment also. One can play game, enjoy movies, and listen to
song, paint and so many things. Our trade culture, personal, social, commercial and non-
commercial sector has warmly received the technology. Student life is the formation period of
professional life. So students need to be habituated with these trends. Our university students are
not behind from this practice.
1.1 Evolutionof laptop/pcusing trends in Bangladesh
Laptop/pc using trends in Bangladesh has been started in the year of 2006-07. This trend was
exploring slowly specially among the professionals. This trend was not in a wide practice among
university students. But if you think about today’s Bangladesh you will be astonished. Near
about 38% university students use laptop/pc for academic purpose. Now the question is, when
from the trend of using laptop/pc has been started among students? Well, Current situation has
been developed by last five years only. It is incredible in context of Bangladesh. Dell was the
first laptop brand successfully captured the market from 2007. Then Dolphin computers came to
market observing the golden time of Bangladesh laptop/pc habits. Then all other foreign brands
like Hp, Asus, Toshiba, Acer and so many brands started to capture market. We can proudly
announce that a developing country like Bangladesh has its own brand of laptop specially made
for students and that is DOEL. Laptop/pc using trend has close relation with internet.ICT sector
of Bangladesh enriched by the staring of SANOG IV LAN internet protocol system, then BDIX
at 2004 and then optical fiber using from 2005. When different telecommunication company
started to be established in our country large number of computer and electrical graduates started
working with them. Their hard working is one of important component to enrich ICT sector of
Bangladesh. Then at 2008, our honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced vision
“Digital Bangladesh-2020”. From then our government has created many chance to young
people to develop IT career. Out sourcing sector explored a new dimension of possibilities
among Bangladeshi young. By the time we achieved economic solvency a little bit. Different
multinational companies started to come in Bangladesh and were looking for IT expert graduates
specially computer graduates. By the mean time local software company also established and

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local trading company started using database software for their own. Value of computer
graduated started rising and trend of using laptop among students had been started. Not only
computer graduates but also other department’s student started practice over computer
technology. Now technological knowledge is mandatory for all students. Even a new subject on
ICT has been introduced to the curriculum of higher secondary level. Trade and employment in
Information Technology service inspire students to be habituated with IT. Female students are
not out of the circle. They are developing skills on it. Few success of Bangladesh is the evidence
of our history. In 2010 Bangladesh was the highest earning region from freelancing and out
sourcing site. Several IT farms export their production worldwide. Now our students are asset to
the government. They work on multimedia projection, animation, games development, android
application development, graphics, and cinematography and create wonderful signature of
expertness. Private university students are the large community of this trend. Public university is
also developing in this context. We have so many cyber expert and we won cyber war against
India. Bangladesh is on very strong position in this regards. All credits goes to the students of
our country. We conduct international category IT expo. We have IDB bhaban. We have BASIS.
This is an integrated result of laptop/pc using trend. Having good command over Microsoft
office, internet browsing, little expertness on local network system, making good level
presentation capability are normal requirement from all discipline of students. Nowadays
computer expertness on any category like graphics design, website design, e-marketing etc has
been a great medium of earning. Social communication is more flexible on laptop as one can
complete other formal sheet, document, report, research etc on computer. Students have started
using laptop frequently and now it is a habit, it is a trend.

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1.2. A brief background of AIUB students
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) is a private research university located at
Banani in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1994 by Anwarul Abedin under the Private
University Act, 1992. Talented graduated from public university has a trend to going abroad after
finishing graduation. It was “brain-Drain” problem. It can have negative effect over national
economy. On that moment AIUB had been introduced as a solution to “Brain-Drain”
A university is a fountainhead of knowledge. New knowledge, skills and meaningful experiences
spring from the university. To quench the thirst of individuals who are in search for wider
horizon of learning and discover novel challenges in life is the inherent intention of AIUB even
at the time of its conception. Students are honed and nurtured to become Leaders in their
respective chosen discipline. It continuously transforms students into active participants in the
development process in both curricular and extra-curricular activities. It has built and maintained
its reputation as a leader in the pursuit of quality and excellence. The primary beneficiaries are
the students who stand to benefit from all the resources and services provided by the university.
Under the stewardship's of dedicated and visionary founders, dynamic management, competent
faculty and skillful support staff, the university continues to be the venue for change and
producing leaders in various arenas of endeavors. My opinion about this university is their
attempt of making professional graduates and providing computer based education has been
successful. As proof I am going to hold up the mission and vision of AIUB.
Mission:
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-BANGLADESH (AIUB) envisions promoting
professionals and excellent leadership catering to the technological progress and development needs of
the country.
Vision:
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-BANGLADESH (AIUB) is committed to provide
quality and excellent computer-based academic programs responsive to the emerging challenges of the
time. It is dedicated to nurture and produce competent world class professional imbued with strong sense

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of ethical values ready to face the competitive world of arts, business, science, social science and
technology.
They have been succeeded to implementing their goal. They are building asset for the country.
AIUB students are smart in the field of technology. Reason behind this success is having linkage
with some well known technological institution. Following data is collected from www.aiub.edu
Linkages and Networking
 Microsoft Security Cooperation Program (SCP)
 Microsoft IT Academy (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 MSDNAA (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 CCNA and IT Essentials in collaboration with CISCO (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 Authorized Sun Education Centre (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 Education Partner of Bangladesh Cricket Board (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 Oracle Academy (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 Certifies Internet Web (CIW) Professional Program (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 CTP Authorized Training Academy (www.cec.aiub.edu)
 The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award (www.intaward.org)
No doubt AIUB students are expert in technology as they remain close touch to all those institution
mentioned in the linkage and networking section. Moreover AIUB has been established to provide
computer based academic program and make excellent graduates having technological expertness. Out of
these historical or theoretical terms you can see the same image on their real academic area. They
introduced VIUS system which is teacher-students communication platform and this system also make
them touched by the administration also. So they are somehow bound and habituated with laptop/pc.
Same image will be reflected to all the disciplines. AIUB students have some national and international
achievements which is proof of their computer habits. Some of their students have placed first in national
and international category programming contest. Their EEE and BBA department’s students are also
doing fine. Finally one line about AIUB is their mission has been succeeded and vision has been visited.

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1.3: Common function of laptop/pc
The laptop computers are made for increasing the convenience of users. They can be used in travelling for
business purposes.
The laptop computer is portable equipment. The laptop computers are portable due to light weight. They
have many features when they are compared with desktop computers. Laptop computers are operated
using built in batteries. These batteries are made for long life. The laptop computer has a built in touch
pad so that it can be operated without a mouse. The key board and monitor have also been built in so
that the equipment facilitates all functions.
The laptop computers are smaller and energy efficient. The parts used to make them are expensive.
The facilities provided in a laptop computer are similar to that of a desktop computer. Different versions
of laptops are available in the market with large screens, high capacity graphic cards etc.
The specialty in laptop computers includes light weight and lower energy consumption. Also they are less
noisy and easy to handle. Similar to desktop computers the laptop computers include mother board,
processor, hard disk, memory, graphic card, keyboard, mouse and display device battery life etc.
The major benefit of a laptop computer is that it is lighter in weight and can be used while travelling.
The disadvantage of a laptop computer is that it does not support for expansion or upgrade. The laptop
computers are equipped with built in wireless network cards. It facilitates users to connect to the Internet
without a cable.
1.4: Check before buying
Laptop has several advantages over desktop but you must have concern about few things while
going to buy laptop. Here I show you what should be your concern on a laptop to have a better
experience than desktop.
Hard Drives: Your laptop’s hard drive should have 500 gigabyte to 1 terabyte space solid date
drive (SSD).
RAM: Your laptop should have minimum 2 gigabyte random access memory

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Processor speed: In old days you would have judge a computer almost exclusively on its
processor speed. Your processor should be minimum 1.6 GHz speed. If you are going to use
your laptop for major gaming, data processing, or video, or graphics design your laptop should
have higher speed in processor (GHz) and multi core processor.
Laptop weight: Nowadays you don’t need DVD drive. Flash drive is the alternative for you so
buy slim and light laptop.
Screen size: At least 11” and maximum 17”
Screen resolution: Resolution is the other critical factor determining how much information you
will be able to see on your laptop’s screen. (1280×800)- (1600×1200).
Screen backlight: LED lighting technology offers a better picture, is more durable, and
consumes less power.
Track Pads: Your track pads should be sensitive and gesture mode should ne enabled.
Keyboard: Flexible fit with your figures.
Battery Life: One of the limiting factors of laptops is battery life. You need to consider your life
style and decide how important battery life is. The best laptops will offer you 10 hours of battery
life. This can enable students to use laptop through the day without ever having to plug it.
Ports: Your laptop is meant for portability. Your laptop should have adequate number of USB
ports. All ports should USB 3.0 standards.

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1.5: Common academic use of laptop/pc
Laptop/pc is frequently use by a consumer of it in various purpose. Students pick up greatest
advantage of this device on academic purpose. They use it on various conditions for academic
purpose. Following data highlights some common necessity and field of using laptop/pc by
students on their academic life.
1. Presentation: Students from all discipline usually needs to prepare presentation. This
time they need to work on Microsoft power point/ prezi. Associating with
presentation making task they often need to use drawing tools, excel, adobe acrobat
or Photoshop etc.
2. Assignment on word document: Teachers often ask for assignment to be done by
students. So they need to work with Microsoft word and all associating software.
3. Report: Like presentation and word doc assignment report writing is frequent practice
of students nowadays. So they need to work on Microsoft office.
4. Poster/cover page design: Most often students feel the necessity to design a cover
page for their assignment, project, report, or presentation. They take help from adobe
series software to do this.
5. Animation: Sometimes students need to prepare a little animation clip to visualize a
concept. This time they need to be habituated with maya 3D.
6. Access to academic protocol: Most common use of laptop/pc for AIUB students is to
access university FTP protocol or VIUS system. They get everyday class notes on
VIUS. Sometimes they need to submit their task on the system. Sometimes they need
to be notified weather the class is going to be happen or not or some other
information.
7. Tools: Students from all discipline are dependent on some software. CS students need
to practice coding all day long with Codebooks, Microsoft visual studio, Oracle
DBMS, EMU8086, android studio, Net bean IDE and so on. EEE students need some
software for simulating circuits before practical implementation. Architecture

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students need to work on CAD, Maya 3D and so on. BBA students need to work on
M/S word, excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop and so on. MMC students need to be
habituated with all graphics and video editing software.
8. Doing home work/class work: Sometimes teacher provide some task which is not
possible to complete without laptop/pc.
9. Browsing internet for research.
10. Submitting or getting file to teacher
11. Visiting VIUS
12. Registration purpose: AIUB offers open credit system and has the most advanced
database system of its own. On every semester students need to be registered with
subjects and sections. Laptop/pc helps them a lot in this context.
13. Advance simulation of project: None is going to implement a project without being
sure about its practical effect. Laptop/pc helps them a lot in advance graphical
simulation of projects.
14. Group work: Sometimes student are provided group task. So they bring laptop/pc in
university, discuss and finish their task through the help of laptop/pc.

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2.0: Research and Methodology
The purpose of this study is to observe laptop/pc using habits of AIUB students. Therefore I had
made a survey on AIUB students from all discipline. Data for this report were gathered from 1 -
7 April 2016. A questionnaire survey was carried out from 2 - 5 April. The questionnaires were
distributed to a total of 180 staff, consisting of 60 staff at senior level and 120 staff of junior
level. Staff representatives from both senior and junior levels were interviewed on instant. Close
ended question pattern had been followed for 23 questions. 160 copies were returned by the
students fully answered. Rest of the copies was not fully completed with answers. I have used
100 copies of questionnaires paper for data analysis. 25 of them were from CSE department, 20
from EEE department, 20 from BBA, 15 from MMC, 10 from LLB, and 10 from Architecture
department.

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Survey Questionnaires
Topic: Laptop/pc use habits in AIUB
A detailed survey on AIUB students
Spring 2016 at American International University Bangladesh
Name : ________________________
Department : ( ) CSE, ( ) EEE, ( )BBA, ( )MMC, ( )ARCH, ( ) LLB
Credit Completed : _________________________
Please give a √ mark beside your choice
1. Do you have a laptop for academic use?
2. How long you have been using laptop?
3. How long you have been using it for academic purpose?
4. What is your laptop brand?
5. How long a day you usually use laptop?
6. How long a day you use laptop for academic purpose?
7. Do you bring your laptop at university?
8. How many days in a week you bring your laptop?
9. What you often do with your laptop?
10. Do you use your smart phone for academic purpose?
11. Do you thing smart phone is flexible alternative of laptop?
12. Which you more prefer for academic use?
13. Did you use laptop for academic purpose before joining AIUB?
14. What is the most often academic use of your laptop?
15. Do you think the necessity of laptop for students of your department?
16. Which software you frequently use as your study tool?
17. Do you have good command over Microsoft office?
18. Did you ever prepare report, assignment, and presentation single?
19. Do you browse internet for academic purpose on laptop?
20. Which one you use more for academic purpose?
21. Do you play game on laptop?

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22. How long you use laptop not for academic purpose?
23. Do you thing laptop is an entertaining device?
24. What is better for academic help? And why?
25. What are the advantages of laptop over smart phone?
26. What are the disadvantages of laptop over smart phone?

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3.0: Graph
Analysis and Findings
Figure 1: Department wise laptop/pc using rate
Above bar chart shows the rate of laptop/pc user from all departments. I found based on the
survey of AIUB students Computer Science background’s entire student has a laptop/ desktop or
both. 70% of them have laptop. Sky blue color represents the rate of laptop user, red bar
represents rate of desktop user and finally green bar represents the rate of student who don’t have
a laptop/ desktop of his own. But the wondering thing is every one of them has expertness over
computer. AIUB offers a great lab facility for students. 35% EEE students use laptop and 45%
use desktop. 60% BBA students have laptop and they usually use it a lot but not as engineering
students.
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
CSE EEE BBA Arch MMC LLB
Department wise laptop/pc using rate
Laptop Desktop don’t have own laptop/pc

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Figure 2: Laptop/pc using rate on different purpose
This pie chart shows purpose of students of using laptop. 43% AIUB students use laptop for academic
purpose. This rate of each sector doesn’t mean that a specific one is the only practice of AIUB students.
This chart shows the most common activity with its rate. Obviously every student performs all other task
from the circle. Wondering news is that most of them haven’t laptop before getting admission to this
university. So it can be said that using laptop is the habit and culture of AIUB. 25% students use laptop
for entertainment purpose most often. Survey says AIUB students feel comfort by using laptop over other
devices. All other sectors name is denoted by the color and rate is written inside the circle.
43%
25%
15%
13%
4%
Purpose of using laptop/pc by students
Academic Entertainment Internet browsing Social networking Others purpose
Figure 1: Department wise laptop/pc using rate

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Figure 3: Preferable device of AIUB students for academic purpose
When looking for a computing device, there are many options out there. Today, a decision you may have
to think about is whether to purchase a computer or a smart phone. Both can provide computing
capabilities, run software and perform other tasks, but there are many factors to consider between the two
options. Below is a chart to highlight some of the important factors to consider, including the pros and
cons of each.
Smart Phone
14%
Laptop
39%
Desktop
27%
Tablets
20%
Preferabledevice for academic purpose

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Topic Computer Smartphone
Power More powerful computing processors
typically require greater amounts of power
and cooling. Computers are equipped to
provide these requirements for processors,
thus being able to feature higher computing
power overall.
Smartphone’s are more compact and do not have the capa
providing the amount of power and cooling that more p
processors require. They are limited to lower voltage pro
although processors of this type are becoming more advan
powerful.
Cost Prices for a computer (desktop or laptop)
can vary widely, depending on its
capabilities, storage, and features. A more
powerful computer will be more expensive,
but computer prices can range from $300 to
$2000.
Cell phones, specifically smart phones, can vary in price b
power and various features, but not as much as computers. Pr
be $100 to $500inmost cases witha contract.
Screensize Desktop computers use monitors with large
screen sizes. Standard monitor sizes are
between 17" and 24" in most cases, but
larger displays can be used. These include a
TV or projector. Laptops typically feature
screensizes upto 17".
Smartphone’s, due to their smaller size, feature smaller scre
ranging from 2.5" to 4.8", with a few exceptions. To get
screen size (up to 10"), you would have to venture into th
market, which can sometimes feature phone call capabilities,
is not standard.
Portability Desktop computers are not considered to be
portable. They are not easy to move around.
Laptop computers are portable, lightweight,
and easy to place in a backpack. However,
laptops with larger screens (17"+) can be
bulky and more difficult to carry, weighing
up to seven or eight pounds.
Smartphone’s, while a bit bigger than a standard cell phone,
still more portable than any computer. They are very lightwe
can fit in a purse or pants pocket with ease. They are design
taken everywhere with you, thus the very definitionof portab
Storage Computer hard drives are already over one
terabyte (TB) and continuing to increase in
size. Even the most basic computer comes
with a 250 gigabyte (GB) hard drive today.
This applies to both desktop and laptop
computers. For most people, storage will not
be an issue, since even 250 GB is more than
enough for many users.
Some smart phones come with built-in storage, ranging from
64 GB. In some cases, an expansion slot may be available fo
an additional memory chip for more storage capacity. Smart
in general, will offer less storage capacity than a computer
most users, the storage provided is more than adequate. As
chips increase insize, so will the storage capacityof a smart p

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Most users today have both a smart phone and a computer in their home. They use a smart phone
for phone calls, messaging, browsing the Internet, reading e-mail, and other small jobs and use a
computer for more complicated projects or work. If you are trying to decide between only a
smart phone or a computer, also consider a tablet or a hybrid computer, which offers the best of
both a laptop and tablet.
Finally, if you're considering a smart phone but don't think you'll use the Internet much, we
highly recommend purchasing a feature phone instead of a smart phone to avoid monthly data
costs.
Connectivity Although a computer can connect to a 3G,
4G or other phone network, computers do
not come with the necessary equipment.
Most laptops rely on a Wi-Fi signal to
connect to the Internet.
Smartphone’s have a data plan that allows them to be conn
the Internet at all times, as long as the phone is receiving
from a cell phone tower.
Operating
system
Computers come with a more fully featured
operating system due to having the
computing power and memory
requirements. Both desktop and laptop
computers can run a fully featured version
of an operating system, with the option to
choose the operatingsystem onPCs.
Tablets come with a more slimmed down operating system
having more limited computing power and memory. The And
and Apple iOS are adequate operating systems for tablet us
not the fully featured operating system found in a computer. E
Windows operating system found on select smart phon
slimmeddown versionof that found on a computer.
Data Entry
and user input
A computer uses a keyboard for data entry
that most users are familiar with and
comfortable using. The mouse is also
available for easy scrollingand clicking.
Smartphone’s feature an on-screen touch keyboard that i
smaller than that of a standard computer. The smaller keybo
make typing more difficult for users, especially for those w
big fingers. Some smart phones feature a slide-out keyboa
actual keys to press. Again, this keyboard is much smalle
standard computer keyboardand can still be difficult for som

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Figure 4: Most frequent academic task on laptop/pc by students of AIUB
Students need to frequently do the task of making presentation, assignment, report, project, poster
designing, programming , study and specially they are dependent on some software like adobe
PhotoShop, visual studio etc. Based on the survey above graph shows us the rate of most frequent
academic task by AIUB students.
Presentation
14% Assignment/
Report
10%
Programming
41%
Study
20%
software
simulator
15%
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Figure 5: Overall laptop using habit of AIUB students
Watching
movies
21%
Playing
games
19%
Academic
33%
Social networking
8%
Photo editing
8%
Others
11%
Overall laptop using habits

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4.0.Conclusion
The majority of the respondents have one or more personal computers in their home, whereas
only 2 of them do not have a personal computer. It represents that personal computer almost a
standard of equipment in some families; especially for the teenagers. With respect to the findings
in question 2, we can believe it is trendy and common for young people nowadays.
The result signified that 142 of the 160 respondents shared their personal computers with their
family members. From the result, we could draw a conclusion that the personal computers still
remain expensive. People cannot afford to have one computer for themselves. In addition,
limited area may be another factor in Hong Kong.
Most respondents' personal computers could connect to the Internet (81%). It indicated that
Internet is very popular for people in Hong Kong. While the fee of the Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) is falling, Internet becomes more attractive. Almost all personal computer would assess to
the Internet. According to the increasing numbers of personal computers, computers play an
important role in our life nowadays (85%). Computers not just a high-speed calculator, it
provides a multimedia channel for all computer users. The responses reveal the three main
purposes of personal computers were studying (75%), working (45%) and entertainment (80%).
For study, Internet brings an alternative and interactive way of education compared with the
traditional teaching method. Hence, it explains why most respondents would like to use the
computer for their study. About 50% of respondents would like to work with the personal
computers, it represented that computers can increase the effectiveness of the work (from part of
the result of question 11). For instance, with the help of additional software, such as Microsoft
Office, Windows series, we can almost create and edit all kind of documents and print them in a
suitable outlook. Besides documents, people can handle other functions, including audio, video
and picture as well. As a result, the vast majority of the respondents stated that the purpose of
using computer was entertainment (80%).
While a large percentage of computer users use their computer frequently, it was remarkable that
35% of them spend more than 21 hours a week on computers and over 50% of users spend more
than 2 hours a day on computers. It showed the fact that computer is much closer to our daily
life. With respect to entertainment, many respondents (38%) say that they would spend 16~20
hours each week. Since the enhancement improves the quality of the computer games and it
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and even DVD-ROM devices. They are now commonly offered as standard peripherals for
stand-alone computers today, which allow people to listen to music in CD and watch video either
VCD or DVD. Personal computers act as a multimedia entertainment center in most families.
Is it essential for everyone own a computer? That's a question in our survey. There are roughly
half of the respondents do believe. From the conclusion above, we can’t object that computers
have become a part of our life. Not only in family, as we hang around out of our homes, there are
still computers around us, “Computer make us work more effectively” is considered as a main
advantage by majority of the respondents. With the help of Internet, we can get latest
information and communicate with others easily. So roughly half of respondents believed that
“Getting information easily” and “learning more” are other advantages. Although, most
respondents agreed the main purpose of using computer was entertainment, but it is surprising
that only 2 respondents thought that computers could make us relax. There was 2 respondents
thought that computer is perfect because they thought that computer is amazing and can “Do
things other things cannot do”. These showed still a very little portion of people were too depend
and relied on computers psychosomatically.
After all, from the survey, we discovered that people do think that computers bring some
disadvantages to us. Nearly half of the respondents thought that computer is harmful to health
and it is expensive. People rely too much on computers and the security system of computer
program are other major problems. And some respondents thought using computer make them
anti- social. From the result, the health problems were their main concern when using computers.
And as the increasing number of internetworking and the application of Internet are extended to
banking and purchasing, more people will be concerned the security system of their computer
and affair they will rely on it too much.
Last for all, although the price of computers have become much cheaper now, but people still
expect that the cost of computers could be lower and the size of it can be reduced with higher
processing speed. For their great expectation to the development of e-commerce, growth in
security in the Internet is expected to continue. While the Operation System and the software
application become more user-friendly, but there has a small portion of respondents expect their
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5.0. Recommendation
People should use computer in the proper way, such as not to use the computer for a long period
(above 3 hours). They should have a short break of about 15 minutes according to the medical
research. It is recommended there is a distance gap between the eyes and the monitor, avoid
harmful to our eyes.
As discussed above, the standard of personal computer is enhancing and the price is declining.
About the security, we recommend the password is the most effective way for protecting
personal information. However, some statistics reveal that the number of cracker is increasing
rapidly. Thus, Government should provide resources in educating the youngsters.
Finally, people should not “live” in computer’s virtual life, which will just make them anti-
social. Computer brings us so many benefits, but communication and friendship between human
beings are most important.
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