“Apple is facing the rare incident of an advance sellout this week as a number of Norwegian resellers have had to stop their pre-order programs for the iPad. Eplehuset (Apple House) has told its customers that ‘crazy interest’ has led it to stop sales in advance. Fellow Apple reseller Humac has also quietly pulled the iPad, as it still has a category but no longer has active product pages,” Electronista reports.

“It’s believed that the sites took thousands of advance orders for the touchscreen device and that, unusually, the largest portion of orders skew heavily towards the more expensive 64GB iPad with 3G,” Electronista reports.

MacDailyNews Take: We’re not surprised that orders skewed to the top-of-the-line iPad. We recently ran an online poll (Jan. 27 – Feb. 3) that garnered 11,681 responses:

Will you buy an Apple iPad?

Electronista reports, “Most retailers elsewhere in the world haven’t taken pre-orders, making it difficult to gauge how reflective Norway’s surprise may be of actual overall demand. However, the smaller population compared to some of Apple’s larger markets suggests that unofficial pre-orders should be larger where they exist in the US.”

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