For over a decade, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has required students to buy laptops and use them in most of their first-year classes and in some upper-division classes. More recently, Rose-Hulman has experimented with a small number of Tablet PCs and with DyKnow software that enhances the way teachers and students share written, electronic information during class. We have begun to wonder: What is beyond the laptop initiative? This vignette reports results from a study that addresses the question: When software like DyKnow is used to elevate electronic interaction in the classroom, and for schools like Rose-Hulman that require students to have a mobile computer, which is better: traditional laptops or pen-enabled devices like tablet PCs? In what ways is one better than the other? The study investigates this question by using both tablets and laptops in a controlled manner for a particular class and ultimately letting students choose which device they prefer, when instruction is delivered through DyKnow. From our assessment of the choice of device that students make, we hope to gain insights into which device is the better choice, and why.