If you are close to a Best Buy Store, go there and speak with a Samsung rep. When I was deciding, they told me that that the main reason to buy a note was for the S Pen. I am not a prolific tablet user and have only scratched the surface of it's usefulness but I do love my S Pen because I feel I can be spontaneous in a way I can't with a keyboard (virtual or solid). When I was getting my garden ready to plant in the spring, I used the S Pen to actually draw how I wanted to lay out my seedlings, for example, so there are a lot of cool things you can do with the S Pen. If you won't use it, though, you can save yourself some money and go with the Tab.