If that is going to be your primary unit than yes it's worth the extra money, buy as big as you can afford is the saying that gets repeated a lot here. Someone mentioned there were some advantages over the 10" and up units and up awhile back. Can't remember what they said was the advantage was not just the bigger screen, I will look and see if I can find the post. Maybe some more experienced electronics guys will chime in here, I just got the 10 a couple months ago, and slabin sent me the link to Digital Oasis after I got quotes from some sponsors first..