I'm going on a university next year. Thus I'm wondering, whether a tablet wouldn't be useful for me.

The only significant usage which comes to my mind so far is reading the PDF e-books. E-readers are great for epubs but suck at PDFs. And here tablets are, probably, even better than computers.

On the other hand, I'll need a decent laptop anyway. It's much easier to program using it, write e-mails, etc. For portable things I have my N900. Many things can be easily done on one of these devices. And I'd rather not strain my budget for stuff of little usefulness.

Do you think there are any reasons to buy a tablet, if I'll have a decent laptop anyway? Is there any other usage where a tablet is decisively superior? Or maybe it's better to limit myself to a good laptop?

I'm planning to study informatics combined with physics.

Besides, is the price of the Jolla Tablet expected to rise above the $249 after the crowdsourcing campaign? Or will it rather go down?