I had the 12.9 for about a week when it came out, and ended up decided it too large and sent it back, I had a second look at one yesterday at Best buy and wow, it is big but man does that screen look gorgeous and the experience with Videos and Magazines is stellar. I might have been too dismissive of it, if the pro in the spring gets the 9.7 inch advances in true tone, and other features I'm going to have to give it a serious look again.