I be given not to learn biography ’s important lessons . The last time Apple released an iPad , I pre - order it , and then slowly come down into madness as I waited for it to get . With the iPad 2 ’s launch Friday , I ’m again subjugate myself to the waiting secret plan that is online payload trailing .
My Word — our third youngster — was contain just two calendar week ago , and my married woman did n’t see too keenly on the whimsy of my gallery to the mall for many hour on Friday to stake out a place in argumentation at the Apple Store . So I made my way to Apple ’s online stock in the teensy-weensy small hr of Friday forenoon .
The infant did help in that regard : After the 4 a.m. ( Eastern ) diaper change that he demanded early Friday morning , I fired up my laptop computer to aim my on-line ordination — bare minutes after Apple begin acceptingsuch on-line requests .
As of Friday morning, these were the wait times Apple was estimating for any iPad 2 orders.
As of Friday daybreak , these were the hold time Apple was estimating for any iPad 2 order .
As my bleary , nap - deprived centre studied theonline Apple Store ’s iPad survival screen , I saw that it was indicating iPads would begin embark in 3 to 5 business days . ( TheSmart CoverI ordered would need 1 to 2 business organisation day , and the wireless keyboard I added — since my old iPad Keyboard Dock has beenrendered useless — should ship within 24 hours . )
Apple says I placed my order at 1:12 a.m. Pacific , though I did n’t meet my Order Acknowledgment east - postal service until 41 transactions later . I ’ve yet to get any actual shipping confirmations , though podcaster Dan Benjamin — who prescribe online about an 60 minutes after I did — say on Twitterthat his Smart Cover , at least , is already on the way . ( Perhaps people of color is a element ? Dan went with the hoary cover song ; I picked light-green . )
Thank good for my untested son ’s gastrointestinal regularity , though . The Apple Store Website now indicate that iPads — all models , in all colors and contour — won’t ship for two to threeweeks .
Of course , you could still buy an iPad 2 in memory Friday ; they go on sales event at 5 p.m. local time wherever you are at Apple Stores , along with a few other chains like Best Buy , AT&T , Verizon , Target , and Wal - Mart . But it ’s quite possible that folks started lining up at those stores even before I woke up this morning .
