I ordered my iPad on April 20th, and it came this morning. In fact, I'm posting this reply on my new white 64 gig wifii iPad. It was originally estimated to come May 4, but by watching the tracking info from Fed-ex and the yahoo small business webpage I realized it was coming this morning while I was at work. I called home and woke up my college age son and told him to camp out by the front door so there would be no mistake about delivery. I also had him email me when it got to the house. It was hard to put in the whole work day knowing it was home, but somehow I made it!
The information I picked up from this blog post was really helpful in figuring out when it was going to arrive. The yahoo small business webpage definitely gave me more details than the Fed-Ex website did. It also seemed to update just a little faster than the Fed-Ex site did. Go figure!
I was torn between going to the local store and camping/hanging out waiting to see if they had 1 for me. When I called the store to check on shipment inventory, they went from telling me to come early to recommending ordering it online. I decided to be patient and order it from apple. Now I have the one I want, plus I had it engraved, which is a small detail, but one I wanted. Anyway, it's here and it's cool, and I couldn't be happier. if you're still waiting for yours......hang in there.