Apple has started taking pre-orders for iPad on Friday, March 12 for delivery starting April 3.
On the first day, Apple is estimated to have taken pre-orders for 120,000 iPads! Are you one of them?
The figure is based on the initial analysis of pre-orders for the iPad tablet computer by the team at Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board.
Based on the analysis, the Sanity team estimates :
- Nearly 120,000 iPads sold. Their math: 124,596 (orders of all Apple products Friday) minus 16,500 (the average number of online orders on a normal day) times 1.11 (the average number of iPads ordered per customer) equals 119,987 iPads.
- Wi-Fi over Wi-Fi+3G. Customers preferred the cheaper (and available April 3) Wi-Fi-only iPad over the Wi-Fi plus 3G model (due out at the end of April) by roughly two to one.
- 16 GB iPads only slightly more popular. Pre-orders were almost evenly split between the 16, 32 and 64 GB models, with a slight preference for the less-expensive 16 GB model, which starts at $499. The highest-priced iPad is the 64 GB Wi-Fi+3G model, which retails for $829, AT&T charges not included.
