Are you trying to learn or surf youtube on the couch? If they are trying to go application specific for learning I'd rather have a big ass device that kicks as

Are you trying to learn or surf youtube on the couch? If they are trying to go application specific for learning I'd rather have a big ass device that kicks ass with textbooks, than suffer a 9" screen. If you compare it to the text book load of a student now it's a huge improvement. Also since one of the screens is for note taking, you are also remove that additional stuff as well. While a device that large seems counter-intuitive, it's made for purpose not general computing.