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royinla14

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Several reports and store employees apparently claiming mini w/retina avail this Friday....hope its true!
 
That says PRE-order.
How much earlier than product release does Apple usually offer their pre-orders? I remember being able to pre-order my iPad 3 one week before. What are the chances the rMini be released by November 15?
 
Why would they put up preorders so far in advance of a really tight launch? Why put preorders up at all, and not for the Air? That rumor doesn't make any sense to me.
 
9 to 5 is less than definitive about the Nov 1 mini preorder date:

Apple has considered putting the iPad mini with Retina display up for pre-order on November 1st, but plans certainly will change due to the device’s supply constraints.
 
... i heard supply will be limited and will not stabilize until next year...

Yeah, I'm feeling the retina mini is going to join a long list of Christmas gifts that have people fruitlessly driving all over town and waiting in lines at 2am. I'm thinking, rubik cubes, cabbage patch dolls, transformers, Nintendo gameboys, beanie babies, razor scooters, xbox 360, etc.

And if supplies are really tight, maybe folks will switch to the ipad air? At $100 more I'm sure Apple will be happy.
 
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