I believe sales estimates for the iPad are for them to sell 100 million iPads in 2012.

Fedex allows you to redirect, for free even. There's a Fedex Office (Kinko's) a couple of blocks from my apartment and I have redirected my last couple of shipments there. It has worked great.

Not so. They are predicted to have sold 100 million total ipads this year, but that's since the first one.

Well, sold my ipad 2 32GB for 435$ a couple weeks ago (like new to local buyer), but one can still get 375$ from amazon. And finally ordered a 4G device, verizon 64GB LTE. Bit of a spend on the space and broadband, but having a 1GB 20$ a month mobile option that INCLUDES hotspot will make it interesting as a travel device. We'll see how good the Verizon network is in the places I am and travel.

What kind of stock-piles would they have built up by the time the first shipments are made? Surely they must have been manufacturing them at full speed for the last 2-3 months in the run-up to the launch...

I ordered my father's and it is supposed to ship by the 19th. 12 hours earlier and I would have got 16th delivery. Drats!

Right now it says "Processing."

Given that Foxconn has more than 1 million employees- I think the manufacturing times would be pretty impressive. My understanding is that a considerable amount of transpacific capacity for containers has been absorbed- so the bottleneck is probably there as opposed to the factory.

I think it is manufacturing at this point. I didn't order mine until last night as I was having issues deciding which to order (plus, it is a decent chunk of money). This was right after the website went from saying "ships by March 19th" to "ships 2-3 weeks". Sure enough, I have a ship date the first week of April. I am hopeful that is an under-promise/over-deliver.

I ordered one for my dad a day before the shipping times jumped to "2-3 weeks."

My experience has been that they tend to extend the times just in case, but might even deliver early. Not sure about the new iPads as they are just coming out, but when Snow Leopard was released the site mentioned something like 1-2 weeks for delivery and it shipped out like 2 days after I ordered it. :)

What is an Ipad?:)

My dad decided to cancel the order for the 64GB wifi and get the 64GB Verizon LTE version. Too bad he didn't do it sooner. The arrival went from March 22/23 to April 4.

I hope that the Verizon iPad does not include AT&Ts sleazy "Auto Renew." I think you should be given an option to auto renew instead of have it be automatic.

Magic ;)

Tempted
 

I bought an iPad 2 for the home and it is very well used. Now I'm thinking of buying another iPad for travel (taking the iPad I already have would upset some people). At the moment, I see two choices:

1. Buy another iPad 2 (perhaps used).
2. Buy an iPad HD for the home, where it can be used to play HD content on the HDTV and use the existing iPad 2 for travel.

Decisions decisions......

Of course, there is a third way for the travel iPad...... A Kindle Fire or some other cheaper (i.e. end of line) Android device.

I'd get the iPad HD for home and then just take the current iPad2 with you.

This way you kill two birds with one stone: you get yourself a device for travel, and you upgrade the one used at home. :)

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