Based on a survey of 152 students, the following key points were found: 1) Most students (72%) own a personal laptop and prefer brands like Asus, Dell, and HP. 2) Processor type and speed, as well as installed memory, are important considerations for students when purchasing a laptop. 3) Students prefer laptops with screen sizes between 13-14 inches and graphics capabilities for gaming, design work, and videos. 4) To attract students, Taylor's University should design a laptop focusing on specifications like an Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB RAM, large hard drive, and strong graphics, while keeping the price between $500-1000 USD.

1. Mathematics [ MATH 0103 ]
Final Assignment : Statistics
Course: FNBE Jan 2013
Lecturer: Ms. Ann See Peng
Submission Date: 6. 6. 2013
Group Members:
Ian See Tze Onn (0311883 )
Toh Chee Cheng ( 0311122 )
Wong Li Hui Amy ( 0312406 )
Yap Zhi Jun ( 0310738 )
Yap Zhong Lin ( 0310557 )
Zachery Sebastian ( 0311079 )

2. Introduction
With the vast change in technology in the present day, carrying out
our daily activities is made easier and more efficient. Majority of the
students in universities today are in need of a laptop to carry out
their assignments and organise their documents. That is why
Taylor’s University wants to design a laptop that suits the
requirements and expectations of a university and college student.
With the personalised laptop designed by Taylor’s University,
students can further enhance and improve their education aspect.
However, it is important to design a laptop that is ideal for a
university student. That is why a survey is conducted to obtain
further information of the aspects and considerations of a student
when purchasing a laptop.

3. Do students have a personal laptop at home with
access to the internet?
6%
72%
22%
No
Based on the pie chart, 72% of the
students that answered the survey owns
a personal laptop on their own. With
the rapid growth of technology today
students are eager to follow the latest
trend. Besides that, a laptop can come
in handy to university students as it
makes their everyday life easier. That
is why most of the students today owns
a laptop.
Number of Students Have Personal Laptop at
Home With Access to Internet

4. Which brand(s) of laptop does the student own
currently?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Apple BenQ Dell Asus HP Lenovo Samsung Sony Toshiba Others
Laptop Brands
Number of
Students
Out of the 152 students that took part of this survey majority of them are currently
using Asus laptop. In other words, Asus would be the main competition for producing
Taylor’s own laptop version. Comparisons can be made with Asus laptop to improve
and enhance the ideas for the specification of the Taylor’s laptop brand.

5. Why would the students choose to purchase the
laptop that they currently own?
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Design Price Audio GraphicProcessor type and speedInstalled MemoryScreen Size Battery Life Weight Other
Reasons of choosing the laptop
Number of
students
Based on the reasons why the students purchase the laptop, Taylor’s can determine
what the students would aspect of the laptop in the market today so that students
would be interested in the Taylors’s laptop.

6. What would be the criteria consideration upon
purchasing a laptop?
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Design Price Audio Graphic Processor
type and
speed
Installed
memory
Screen size Battery life Weight Other
Consideration of Criteria
Number of
students
Based on the considerations of the students, the processor type and speed of the laptop
is frequently considered upon purchasing a laptop. Hence, Taylor’s can focus on that
criteria to make its laptop an ideal choice for the students to purchase the Taylor’s
Laptop.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Design Price Audio Graphic Processor
type and
speed
Installed
memory
Screen size Battery life Weight Other
Consideration of Criteria
Number of
students

7. What are students’ preferred screen size?
The chart show the
data of this survey.
Based in data, we
found that student
prefer the laptop with
screen size if 13-14
inches. We should
design the attractive
13 and 14 inch
notebook.
Student's Preferrable Laptop's
Screen Size (inches)
11 --12
12--13
13-14
14-15
15-16
16-17

8. Are most of the students a heavy task user?
64
66
68
70
72
74
76
78
80
82
84
Heavy Light
Student’s Laptop Task Usage
No. of Students
Majority of the students are
Heavy Task User.
Therefore, we should
design the laptop which is
high in ability to perform
processor heavy tasks
properly.

9. How many programs does student usually launched
at one time?
Number of programs launched
at one time
1 time
2 time
3 time
4 time
5 time
6 time
The chart show the data of this survey. Based in data, we found that most of
the people launch 3 programs at a time. We should design the notebook in
which is high end systems for gamers.

10. What are the students’ minimum requirement on
RAM when choosing a laptop.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
4GB
8GB
16GB
32 GB
34 GB
Student’s Minimum Requirement
On RAMThe graph show the data of
this survey. According to
the result, most of the
people require 8 GB Ram
when choosing a laptop. We
should design the 8 GB Ram
instead of 2 or 4 GB Ram as
8GB can store more
memory.

11. Is the graphic of laptop important to students?
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Yes
No
The Importance of Graphic by Students
The chart shows the importance of graphic in laptops by 152 students. 109 out of 43
students said that the graphics for computers are important. We think that Taylor’s
Company should demo more about the importance of graphics in laptops by installing
games or programs in a demo laptop for them to test or compare.

12. Why is the laptop graphic important to students?
38
40
42
44
46
48
50
52
Gaming Design Video
Student's Reasons on The
Importance of Graphic
Reasons
Based on the chart, only the students who chose
“yes” for the importance of graphic are to answer
this question and 145 students answered “yes”.
Throughput the survey, we obtained the same
voting for the voting of importance of graphic.
Each 51 students answered that graphic of laptops
are important because they needed it for gaming
and design purposes. And also 43 students think
that graphic is important for them because they
used it to watch video. As the result is quite
equal, we think that Taylor’s Company should
emphasize on the laptop’s graphic quality in order
to attract students to purchase it.

13. How often do students purchase laptops
on an annual basis?
Student's Responds
1 to 2
3 to 4
5 to 6
When Necessary
The chart shows the amount of laptops students purchased on an annual
basis. Majority of them only buy laptops when necessary. This also means
that students might not willing to buy a new laptop.

14. How long do the students expect the battery life
to last?
Base on the pie chart above, we can conclude that most of students expect the battery life to last 6
years or more than that. Purchasing a new laptop’s battery is never cheap. Therefore, as a
students, they expect the battery life to last as long as it can because they only depends on pocket
moneys.
Relationship between battery life of laptop and
students
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
6 years

15. How much do students willing to spend for buying a
laptop?
Relationship between students and price of laptop
RM1000- RM2000
RM2000 - RM 3000
RM3000 - RM4000
RM4000 - RM5000
RM5000 - RM6000
RM6000 - RM7000
Base on the results above, we may conclude that not all students are only take
attention on the price of laptop but the quality of the products. We buy cheap products
but we acknowledged that the quality would not be as good as the products with
higher price. However, products with over pricing will be neglect by customers too.
Because they might think its not worth for it.

16. How concerned were students with the warrantee
that came with their laptop?
0 20 40 60 80
Very concerned
Still OK
Doesn't Matter/Ignored
The relationship between students and
importance of warrantee
The relationship between
students and importance of
warrantee
Base on the graph above, the conclusion is most of the students are very concerned
about the warrantee that comes with the laptop. They will compare which brands
have the best warrantee. Therefore, warrantee is one of the important issues in a
laptop designing.

17. 0 20 40 60 80 100
Screen Size
Battery Life
Media Capabilities
Portability
Wi-Fi
Fill Keybord
Importance of laptop’s hardware
features between students
Media Capabilities
This survey is conducted to find out the most important hardware features of laptop
for students. 152 students participated in this survey and 82 of them think that media
capabilities is the most important features for them because the media capabilities
provide entertainment for the teenagers.
Base on hardware features of a laptop stated below,
which is the most important for students?

18. Base on the table above we can conclude that out of 152 students, 85 students prefer Hybrid
Laptop if they are to purchase a new laptop. This is because hybrid laptop is designed with a
newer technology which the screen and keyboard can be separated by clicking a small magnetic
latch.
0
20
40
60
80
100
Hybrid Laptop Traditional Laptop
Number of Students In Choosing The Type of Laptop
Number of Students In Choosing The Type
of Laptop
What type of laptop do students prefer?

19. Which laptop core processor do students prefer?
The pie chart above shows that, 60 % percent of student prefer Intel core i7. This is because
Intel core i7 has the faster processor speed if compare to the other core processor type.
Intel core i3
11%
Intel core i5
29%Intel core i7
60%
Student's Preferred Laptop's Core Processor

20. What is students preferred weight for the
laptop?
The chart shows the data of this survey.
According to our data we found out student
prefer light laptop than heavy laptop. In
this survey we have 152 respondents and
90 of them choose to have laptop weight
which is below 2kg. We should design a
ultra thin laptop with the material like thin
solid blocks of aluminium, carbon fibre
which make the laptop lighter and thinner.59%
38%
3% 0%
Relationship between weight of laptop and
students
0 to 2 kg
2 to 4 kg
4 to 6 kg
6 to 8 kg

21. What features would influence students’ decision
when purchasing a laptop?
The chart shows the data of this survey. According to our data we
found out students focus on the processor type and speed and hard
drive capacity more than diagonal screen size and design of laptop. We
should design a laptop with high processor like i7 with fast speed, big
hard drive capacity like 2 or 3 TB.
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Diagonal Screen Size
Weight
Hard Drive Capacity
Processor type and speed
Installed Memory
Product Design
Diagonal
Screen Size
Weight
Hard Drive
Capacity
Processor type
and speed
Installed
Memory
Product Design
No of vote 39 65 86 105 68 56
Importance of laptop features between
students

22. The chart shows the data of this survey.
According to our data we found out student
still choose to buy other brands of laptop
compared with Taylor’s Company designed
laptop. In this survey we have 152
respondents and 96 of them choose not to
buy laptop from Taylor’s Company. We
should advertise more about the special of
our designed laptop and I suggest we
should have free trial for students to try out
our new laptop.
Finally, would students purchase a laptop designed
by Taylor’s company?
56
96
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Yes No
Choice of student whether want to
buy laptop designed by Taylor's
company
Choice of student
whether want to buy
laptop designed by
Taylor's company

23. Conclusion
Based on the survey conducted there are many information and aspects to
focus on upon designing the Taylor’s laptop. Students today prefer
hybrid laptops compared to traditional laptops. Majority of them are
also looking for a laptop with a good processor and high speed
functionality. Besides that, they prefer the screen size of a laptop to be
13 to 14 inches. Most of the students today are also heavy task users.
That is why majority of them requires a minimum of 8GB RAM when
they make their consideration on purchasing a laptop. The graphic of
the laptop is also one of the concerns of the students on the laptop.
They also think that the media capabilities of a laptop are equally
important. However, majority of them are willing to spend a total
amount of RM2000 to RM3000 on a laptop. Nonetheless, they are also
very concerned about the warrantee that comes along with the laptop.
Based on the information gathered, Taylor’s University can focus on
the aspects to design a laptop that is suitable for the students today.

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