Apple to Start iPad Pre-Orders This Week
Pre-orders for the 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad may begin February 25th reports an insider.
When Steve Jobs revealed to the world his beloved Apple iPad last month, he said that consumers will have it in their hands in sixty days. That makes its initial debut sometime around March 29th for the first wave of Wi-Fi models.
App Advice now reports that pre-orders for the first wave will begin this week here in the States, perhaps as early as February 25th. Although App Advice didn't name its source, the preorder is currently only taking place in the USA.
Given that neither Steve Jobs or Apple have released official announcements regarding a solid ship date, we'll have to chalk this one up as speculation. However, Apple has provided pre-orders in the past, roughly the same amount of time after a product launch, that has now passed with the iPad. If the pre-orders do begin this month, then that means consumers waiting out on the 3G models may be able to pre-order next month, as these are expected to ship one month after the wave of Wi-Fi models.
As we reported earlier, the pricing for the iPad starts at $499 for the 16 GB Wi-Fi model--prices climb up as high as $829 for the Wi-Fi / 3G model--although still lower than the $1000 originally thought by most.
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Not until the OS supports multitasking!
I suspect there will be a decline in Kool-Aid sales for about 20 minutes after the pre-orders are available, while the Apple fanboys are preoccupied with pre-ordering their iPads.
let the sheeple begin
Neat, but really, does the iPad bring anything new to the tablet game? (Other than looking better than most.)
No thank you!
So, what justifies the 300 price difference to have 3G? Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with everything but apple.
Finally, just in time because my girlfriend is on her period.
I was gonna go ipad, however no flash? no multitasking?, I have an iphone and an ipod touch, why bother.
The HP Slate however has my complete interest.
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for 130$ more then the top of the line i pad you can get a lenovo hybrid with a real computer and 1 16gb ssd and 1 128ssd. I think i will go with the lenovo hybrid.
Can't wait to get mine. Not a fan-boy at all but love the idea of a giant iTouch.
It would be nice if it did a few extra things, but bashers just pointing out the negative are being short-sited. There's nothing else out there with this form-factor and huge base of applications providing such a flexible and adaptable platform.
I see it as a great coffee-table device as well as for traveling.
The iPad does a lot of things, the iPad doesn't do some things. It's not for everybody, it's not for all given situations. But damn, it looks so pretty.
http://iPadLot.com
I was gonna go ipad, however no flash? no multitasking?, I have an iphone and an ipod touch, why bother.The HP Slate however has my complete interest.http://www.redmondpie.com/apple-ip [...] r-9140405/
Do you use both at the same time for multitasking?
Every lover or fan-boy wanna be always says coffee table device. Who has a coffee table these days? We got rid of ours a while back, took up too much space.
Most iPod touch and iPhone users can't wait to have a bigger screen for their apps.
Everyone else can't understand unless they decide to buy an iPod touch or iPhone.
Ha ha ha...
Title should have been:
"Idiots to give more money to Steve Jobs this week"
Title should have been:"Idiots to give more money to Steve Jobs this week"
but that would hardly be news, would it.
i could possibly rant on for an entire page on why apples products in general are possibly the stupidest things on the market today but im not in the mood and the ipad will probably be bought by ignorant fanboys who dont care about the value of their dollar but only care that its shiny brushed metal with an apple logo and would gladly pay for something that you can get at best buy for 400 dollars less ad more features. thats all apples products are. cheap electronics that they brand to ignorant "teens of today" who are too stupid to realize they are wasting their money.
getting the first generation of any Apple product is FOLLY... but Steve Job's has a whole Box of iTools that will buy the iPad and will wait inline to be the "First".... Regret is not covered by Warranty BTW.
I see there are a lot of apple haters on here today, I like their laptops and desktops, they may be over priced but they hold their value as well, lets see a dell or acer still command 60% of its value in 4 years time, I also like pc's as well and have 2 dell desktops that I use. I dont concider myself an idiot for buying an apple device, my Macbook runs stable fast and looks great, my desktops run fine as well but windows does take a lot more to maintain and is no where near as stable as mac os, all that said I wont be getting an Ipad despite how good they look, I like to choose who I get my software from and not have it dictated to me by anyone including Apple.
... lets see a dell or acer still command 60% of its value in 4 years time...
Even if that was remotely true (it's not) it would simply exemplify the stupidity of the Apple using community. No piece of computer equipment is worth 60% of its original value after 4 years. Zero, zip, none. In accounting terms most computer equipment has zero value after 3 years.
...my desktops run fine as well but windows does take a lot more to maintain and is no where near as stable as mac os...
Sorry, but you're comparing Windows 7 running on a Dell to an Apple. Dell shouldn't be used as a benchmark for anything PC related. Get a proper PC, stick Windows 7 on it and then come back with an informed comparison.
I have an Apple iPhone but it is what is is with its strengths and weaknesses. I don't think it's anything magical but it does what I need it to.
Even if that was remotely true (it's not) it would simply exemplify the stupidity of the Apple using community.
Actually, that's not quite fair. I should've said "Apple LOVING community".
You only have to look on ebay and you can see the prices older Mac stuff goes for, I never said it was worth it myself, I also have windows 7 running on my office laptop and yes it runs very nice, but it doesnt run any better than my mac does, Ive worked as a network admin for the last 10 years and in computer hardware repairs for 10 years before that, so I think I can offer an informed opinon, Ive only had a Mac for about 10 months, before that it was always a PC, you have an Iphone but that doesnt make you stupid or a fanboi for owning it like some of the ealier posts were implying even though you would have paid over the odds for the device as well, and that was my main gripe in my post, as far as compairing benchmarks of a dell which I didnt I just said it runs fine, if you concider fine to be a benchmark then perhaps you should not be commenting.
Every one is always so closed minded to new and innovative things. personally i cant wait to get an ipad i love the way my ipod touch works and use it all the time .. as far as an iphone not really interested in them plans cost to much .. but i think most cell phone plans cost to much any way.. 50 to 100 a month just for a cell phone is just stupid to me. where as the ipad would certainly be useful in a plane or car mounted on a seat or something it would sure beat anything they have out right now .. and as far as multi tasking .. why? its not meant to be a laptop or netbook like every one wants to classify it.. and the hpslate is awesome but i used to work for hp .. trust me i would not buy anything made by them.. at least computer wise foxxconn crap sucks ! ha ha you want a pc with multi tasking get a net book or a laptop .. you want to think different or be a wolf instead of a sheep .. get an ipad .. personally being a sheep is boring .. and not to mention apple rocks. and yes i am a fan boy.. and no my brain works perfectly fine i just dont subscribe to your channel of depressing jazz