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If there is a limited supply, it IS a race. IF they run out, we might be waiting until the 14th, or the 21st, or maybe even December. Pre-ordering eases my mind that I will get one in the first week, at the latest.

Of course, I don't feel like this about every product, but to me, iPads are special. It's the device I've been waiting twenty years for, ever since I first tried to read a book on a laptop, and wanted to take off the keyboard. I guess I'm still not over the excitement at finally getting what I wanted. :p

Yikes, I would want to be in front of you in line :D
 
I preordered yesterday at sweetwater 128gb space grey

Sweetwater? You mean the music place in Indiana?

They guys who keep calling me on the phone trying to drum up business? (no pun int.)

Are you my agent Carl by any chance? :D
 
I wonder why they're not doing preorders. They'd make a fortune. Now I have to camp lol.
 
I've been able to get an iPad 3 and 4 on launch day in the afternoon. I've got a feeling the retina mini is going to be a pain to get for at least a few months.
 
If there is a limited supply, it IS a race. IF they run out, we might be waiting until the 14th, or the 21st, or maybe even December. Pre-ordering eases my mind that I will get one in the first week, at the latest.

Of course, I don't feel like this about every product, but to me, iPads are special. It's the device I've been waiting twenty years for, ever since I first tried to read a book on a laptop, and wanted to take off the keyboard. I guess I'm still not over the excitement at finally getting what I wanted. :p

Yep, witness the iPad Mini when it was released. I got it from BB mobile and was lucky as they got a small shipment a week later. Took much longer to be in stock at their big store near me.
 
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