So I'm thinking of buying an iPad 2. I played with one owned by my friend Mickey Paraskevas for about one minute before I decided this.
I didn't expect to get one without a wait but I was wondering just how long that wait might be. I went over to the AT&T store near me. A man there said, "We were supposed to have received a batch of them by now but they're shipping them all to the Apple Stores and not giving us any. I have no idea if we'll ever have them. I'd try the Apple Store if I were you."
So I went over to the Apple Store and asked when they might have one in I could buy. A man there said, "We get new ones in every morning and we sell them on a first-come, first-served basis to folks who line up outside. We open at 9 AM and I think the line starts forming around 6:00 or so. Of course, you could wait for three hours and then discover that we didn't get in enough of them or didn't get the model that you want. I'd try ordering online if I were you."
So I looked online and it said that if I ordered now, my order would ship in 2-3 weeks. I went back to the site an hour later to stare at it and decide if I wanted to do that but now it said 4-6 weeks. I'm afraid to look again.
I think I'll wait until the Apple Store has enough of them so you can just walk in, buy one and take it home. My logic is that by the time I can go in and do that, there'll be something else out I want more and I won't have to buy the iPad.