Apple’s iPad 2 goes on sale today at 5 p.m. local time across the United States and lines are already forming.
UPDATE: 5:30 pm ET: Readers tell us of huge lines at Apple Retail Stores. For example, one MacDailyNews reader counted 700+ people in line at Apple Store Crossgates in Albany, NY just before the doors opened at 5pm.
If you’re in an iPad 2 line, please send us a photo (webmaster@macdailynews.com) and please note your location and we’ll post them below!
Note that the iPad 2 line for Apple Store Bellueve Square passes right outside the Microsoft Store located in the same mall!
Apple Store Alderwood Mall – Lynnwood, WA (Thanks, David L.)
Apple Store Bellevue Square – Bellevue, WA (Thanks, Larry L.)
Apple Store Twenty Ninth Street – Boulder, CO (Thanks, Tim B.)
Apple Store Brandon – Brandon, FL (Thanks, Brian G.)
Apple Store Briargate – Colorado Springs, CO (Thanks, Cord P.)
Apple Store Crossgates Mall – Albany, NY (Thanks, Michael M.)
Apple Store Bay Street – Emeryville, CA (Thanks, Paul H.)
Apple Store Ala Moana – Honolulu, HI (Thanks, Terry & Jeanne G.)
Apple Store Ala Moana – Honolulu, HI (Thanks, Terry & Jeanne G.)
Apple Store Keystone – Indianapolis, IN (Thanks, Frank C.)
Apple Store Smith Haven – Lake Grove, NY (Thanks, Randy H.)
Apple Store Smith Haven – Lake Grove, NY (Thanks, Ross P.)
Apple Store Tysons Corner – McLean, VA (Thanks, Adam J.)
Best Buy Tropicaire Mall – Miami, FL (Thanks, Hugo L.)
Apple Store Green Hills – Nashville, TN (Thanks, Shaun L.)
Apple Store Twelve Oaks – Novi, MI (Thanks, Steve W.)
Apple Store Millenia – Orlando, FL
Apple Store Palo Alto – Palo Alto, CA (Thanks, Kevin E.)
Best Buy – Patchogue, NY (Thanks, ob1spyker)
Apple Store Ross Park – Pittsburgh, PA (Thanks, Ray M.)
Apple Store Crabtree Valley Mall – Raleigh, NC (Thanks, Chad H.)
Map of line at 3pm at Apple Store SoHo – New York City (Thanks, Mmm)
Apple Store Tyson’s Corner – McLean, VA (Thanks, Pat F.)
Apple Store The Woodlands -The Woodlands, TX
Apple Store Walden Galleria – Buffalo, NY (Thanks, Anthony J.)
Apple Store St. Johns Town Center – Jacksonville, FL (Thanks, Steve A.)
Apple Store Fifth Avenue – New York City (Thanks, Victor P.)
Apple Store Providence Place – Providence, RI (Thanks, John B.)
Apple Store Short Pump Town Center – Richmond, VA (Thanks, Hayward T.)
Apple Store Short Hills – Short Hills, NJ (Thanks, Michael S.)
Austin Barton Creek sold out at 8:00 pm and had to turn away several hundred people. All stock in Austin is gone, including the popup store. Thats three Apple stores. Guess Gene M should have checked for lines a little more closely.
I went to the Best Buy in my neighborhood, they had 20 iPads to sell for the Grand iPad debut. Petty ridiculous. I will buy one, but I for one refuse to stand in line for hours to buy a gadgets, regardless how cool it might be.
I went to a Target in Milwaukee, WI. No line at 4:30. at 4:45 4 other people showed up at the electronics counter. 5 people. Only 5 16GB White Wi-Fi iPad 2 were avail. 5 min. Over. A different Target only had 6 32GB Black Wi-Fi. Strange.
Huge lines at Apple Store in Nashville. I wanted a 3G but they were sold out of all 3G models by 6:30. Not wanting to leave empty handed I bought 2 wifi units thinking I’d sell them. I’m not sure I will make it through this night. I hear them calling to me from beneath their cellophane cage.
Should I be strong and wait for the 3G or can I live with a wifi version?
I was about 149th in line and managed to make it inside the Park Meadows Mall in Lonetree, Colorado before the Apple employees came down the line with the bad news that all AT&T 3G iPad’s were sold out…this was like 5:20 MST. Yikes, only 20 minutes to sell out all AT&T 3G models.
Was able to reserve a white 64Gb Verizon 3G model at the Verizon store last Monday. Received three calls from the Verizob store throughout Friday making sure I was serious because they had crowds gathering. Arrived at 5:10 and picked up my Precious and a grey neoprene cover. Officially handed off my original iPad to my wife and am enjoying the snappier performance. iMovie app here I come!
A note to Gene Munsters Boss
Whatever you are paying him you need to seriously review it. As an analyst he seems to get it more wrong than right. What betting man would have said no queues at an apple product launch. Halve his salary
Saturday 08;49 Just received e-mail from FedX that my iPad2 has shipped. It does say delivery date of 3-17-2011 but I’m guessing it will be by the 14th. I ordered the $499 black Wi Fi at 03:00 Friday morning. Bam!
It would be interesting to see how many of these buyers
are first time owners as opposed to up graders. For 1st
timers, I say go for it. For others like me. No way!
My main one is the 64GB 3G. Also have the 64GB Wi-Fi.
Both models generation 1. The second one has all my
music (20GB+and growing) and hundreds of comics
for the ComicZeal4 app. Both pads have c8GB free.
The new pad is blazing fast. No reason to up grade
as the old one wasn’t slow just fast. As to the cameras,
they suck (front 640×480,back 720×960). Useless for
stills. Can’t hold a candle to iPhone 4’s camera which is
superb. Max capacity still at 64GB. I would buy if it had
a great camera. I would buy if it had 128GB capacity or
an SD slot in spite of the lousy camera. I’m sitting this
one out and waiting for iPad 3. 🙁
5th ave store had 2 2hr lines, one on each side. If you were thinking about making the line apple aecurity officers were screaming NO ATT 3G models left! ONLY VERIZON!! But not many people were buying into this… Once inside, the sales force had access to whatever was out at that moment, but 3G ATT units were the most sought after, i saw no 16 or 64GB models of any kind while there, only 32GB models, which was weird, and they were going like hotcakes, id say 100 per minute, it was unbelievably how the were getting rid of them… A Chinese man had a small sweat shop working with over 5 kids wit wads of cash going around, he had like 70-100 ipads in 3 huge grocery bags… It was insane… Only store to be open 24/7 and the line is not coming down!
I have an iPad 1:st gen, 64GB-3G. The only single reason why I will upgrade is the 512 MB RAM, twice as much as the previous iPad and as much as my iPhone 4. Several apps, most notably AutoCAD WS (but also others) seems to be memory-deprived on my iPad but works great on the iPhone. I am sick and tired to double-click and stop all other running apps. Those offensive apps works fine in a 512 MB environment and iPad with its much superior screen real-estate works those apps better. Thank you Apple!!!
I ordered mine yesterday at about 7:30 am and got a ship date of 4/1… Just as a piece of personal research, I went this afternoon to 2 Wal-Marts. 2-Targets. 1 Best-Buy, 1 AT&T store and finally to the Apple store here in SOUTH Southern Orange county (CA).. between noon and 1:30 pm pacific time… NOTHING…ALL GONE…NADA… And some VERY irritated folks everywhere…
I walked past the 5th Ave Store at about 11am and there were maybe 200 or 300 people.
Around 1:45 I walked past the SoHo store and the line was 3/4 of the way up Greene Street toward Houston… maybe 500. The odd thing was that the majority of people in line seemed to be Chinese.
Apparently Mr. Munster didn’t take into account that there would be no preorders, and that, while there may be more players this time around, sending Target 5 units hardly qualifies as a viable alternative to waiting on line at Apple or Best Buy.
The other thing, that I assume, he didn’t take into consideration is that this is the model that those who didn’t buy iPad 1 were waiting for. Many people I spoke to about the original iPad complained about the lack of a camera and the apprehension about buying a first gen device. This product served both issues as well as providing a nice (and noticeable) performance boost. When you toss in the original iPad owners who wanted to upgrade or add to their iPad collection you actually had the potential for quite the opposite of Mr. Munster’s predictions.
In all fairness, I can see how he could come to the conclusion he he did, but if you really did some homework and put some real thought into the issue you would see that this prediction would fall flat on it’s face.
If Gene Munsters bosses are reading this they should fire him or at least halve his wages. How could he bet against Apple when they are leading on all fronts
Austin Barton Creek sold out at 8:00 pm and had to turn away several hundred people. All stock in Austin is gone, including the popup store. Thats three Apple stores. Guess Gene M should have checked for lines a little more closely.
The 12 Oaks Mall in Novi, MI sold out by 8pm.
I went to the Best Buy in my neighborhood, they had 20 iPads to sell for the Grand iPad debut. Petty ridiculous. I will buy one, but I for one refuse to stand in line for hours to buy a gadgets, regardless how cool it might be.
I went to a Target in Milwaukee, WI. No line at 4:30. at 4:45 4 other people showed up at the electronics counter. 5 people. Only 5 16GB White Wi-Fi iPad 2 were avail. 5 min. Over. A different Target only had 6 32GB Black Wi-Fi. Strange.
my video of iPad 2 release in new jersey 🙂
Since you bought it at an Apple Store, I guess Best Buy didn’t want your “old tech” (from your previous video)… 🙂
All the stores look the same pretty much. Very good retail strategy there Apple!
yea woodlands mall!!!!
I was 50 or so people back, got my 64Gb wifi.
Huge lines at Apple Store in Nashville. I wanted a 3G but they were sold out of all 3G models by 6:30. Not wanting to leave empty handed I bought 2 wifi units thinking I’d sell them. I’m not sure I will make it through this night. I hear them calling to me from beneath their cellophane cage.
Should I be strong and wait for the 3G or can I live with a wifi version?
I am wondering if Apple employees get any discount on iPad2.
I was about 149th in line and managed to make it inside the Park Meadows Mall in Lonetree, Colorado before the Apple employees came down the line with the bad news that all AT&T 3G iPad’s were sold out…this was like 5:20 MST. Yikes, only 20 minutes to sell out all AT&T 3G models.
got 16GB WIFI only at, of all places, Wal-Mart. No line, no nothing.
Was able to reserve a white 64Gb Verizon 3G model at the Verizon store last Monday. Received three calls from the Verizob store throughout Friday making sure I was serious because they had crowds gathering. Arrived at 5:10 and picked up my Precious and a grey neoprene cover. Officially handed off my original iPad to my wife and am enjoying the snappier performance. iMovie app here I come!
Anyone got a pic from Phoenix, where the Apple store has a Microsoft store directly opposite?
A note to Gene Munsters Boss
Whatever you are paying him you need to seriously review it. As an analyst he seems to get it more wrong than right. What betting man would have said no queues at an apple product launch. Halve his salary
Saturday 08;49 Just received e-mail from FedX that my iPad2 has shipped. It does say delivery date of 3-17-2011 but I’m guessing it will be by the 14th. I ordered the $499 black Wi Fi at 03:00 Friday morning. Bam!
It would be interesting to see how many of these buyers
are first time owners as opposed to up graders. For 1st
timers, I say go for it. For others like me. No way!
My main one is the 64GB 3G. Also have the 64GB Wi-Fi.
Both models generation 1. The second one has all my
music (20GB+and growing) and hundreds of comics
for the ComicZeal4 app. Both pads have c8GB free.
The new pad is blazing fast. No reason to up grade
as the old one wasn’t slow just fast. As to the cameras,
they suck (front 640×480,back 720×960). Useless for
stills. Can’t hold a candle to iPhone 4’s camera which is
superb. Max capacity still at 64GB. I would buy if it had
a great camera. I would buy if it had 128GB capacity or
an SD slot in spite of the lousy camera. I’m sitting this
one out and waiting for iPad 3. 🙁
5th ave store had 2 2hr lines, one on each side. If you were thinking about making the line apple aecurity officers were screaming NO ATT 3G models left! ONLY VERIZON!! But not many people were buying into this… Once inside, the sales force had access to whatever was out at that moment, but 3G ATT units were the most sought after, i saw no 16 or 64GB models of any kind while there, only 32GB models, which was weird, and they were going like hotcakes, id say 100 per minute, it was unbelievably how the were getting rid of them… A Chinese man had a small sweat shop working with over 5 kids wit wads of cash going around, he had like 70-100 ipads in 3 huge grocery bags… It was insane… Only store to be open 24/7 and the line is not coming down!
I have an iPad 1:st gen, 64GB-3G. The only single reason why I will upgrade is the 512 MB RAM, twice as much as the previous iPad and as much as my iPhone 4. Several apps, most notably AutoCAD WS (but also others) seems to be memory-deprived on my iPad but works great on the iPhone. I am sick and tired to double-click and stop all other running apps. Those offensive apps works fine in a 512 MB environment and iPad with its much superior screen real-estate works those apps better. Thank you Apple!!!
I ordered mine yesterday at about 7:30 am and got a ship date of 4/1… Just as a piece of personal research, I went this afternoon to 2 Wal-Marts. 2-Targets. 1 Best-Buy, 1 AT&T store and finally to the Apple store here in SOUTH Southern Orange county (CA).. between noon and 1:30 pm pacific time… NOTHING…ALL GONE…NADA… And some VERY irritated folks everywhere…
I walked past the 5th Ave Store at about 11am and there were maybe 200 or 300 people.
Around 1:45 I walked past the SoHo store and the line was 3/4 of the way up Greene Street toward Houston… maybe 500. The odd thing was that the majority of people in line seemed to be Chinese.
Apparently Mr. Munster didn’t take into account that there would be no preorders, and that, while there may be more players this time around, sending Target 5 units hardly qualifies as a viable alternative to waiting on line at Apple or Best Buy.
The other thing, that I assume, he didn’t take into consideration is that this is the model that those who didn’t buy iPad 1 were waiting for. Many people I spoke to about the original iPad complained about the lack of a camera and the apprehension about buying a first gen device. This product served both issues as well as providing a nice (and noticeable) performance boost. When you toss in the original iPad owners who wanted to upgrade or add to their iPad collection you actually had the potential for quite the opposite of Mr. Munster’s predictions.
In all fairness, I can see how he could come to the conclusion he he did, but if you really did some homework and put some real thought into the issue you would see that this prediction would fall flat on it’s face.
If Gene Munsters bosses are reading this they should fire him or at least halve his wages. How could he bet against Apple when they are leading on all fronts