Between 1968 and 1975, Johnny Whitaker was in EVERYTHING.

I doubt my mom could make heads or tails of a laptop, but she does fine with her iPad. iPads start at $300, and their sales are up for the quarter, according to IDC Tracker.

To be precise, market leader iPad sales were way up, #2 Samsung tablet sales were up slightly, and everyone else's tablets declined. To me, it sounds like low end tablets tanked, but not the market leaders.

Slightly off-topic, but: my family went to that beach about 10 years ago and my kids played with a boy who appeared to be maybe 10 years old, non-verbal, wild hair, probably Native. He had nobody watching him, but he jumped and played in the waves and made friends with other kids who came to the beach. He'd be about 20 now. Anyone know him? Hope he's doing okay. We enjoyed hanging out with him.

In 1986, he was wearing the exact same length as all the other guys. Wearing longer shorts was considered nerdy.

And we know Apple can make a $300 iPad for schools (because they have for many years). I'm hoping they eventually come out with a $500 touchscreen MacBook for schools.

School districts often do requests for proposals for touchscreen laptops, and Apple doesn't even have one. I would imagine making a touchscreen laptop would be lucrative for Apple.