iPad orders start at 8:30AM tomorrow morning

We knew iPad pre-orders were starting tomorrow, but now we know exactly when all you lovable crazies have to stumble out of bed and transmit your credit card numbers to Steve's brain: 8:30AM ET, or 5:30AM on the West Coast. We generally recommend a bed shaker alarm clock, but hey, let's not pretend we haven't all turned a few long nights into tomorrow with our old friends Jackie D and Mistakes. See you on the other side, chochachos.

[Dick Lynch Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:34PM]

I'll take Zero.

[CRA1G Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:37PM]

@Dick Lynch And here I was gonna give you mine.

[Dick Lynch Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:38PM]

@CRA1G I'd Tosh.0 It. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gA16Fq4SAo

[Janvito5 Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:44PM]

@Dick Lynch Zero, as in F-Zero ? I still have my old copy laying around here somewhere...

[FZeroWing Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:02PM]

@Janvito5 Someone call for me..?

[gerrrg Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:20PM]

@Dick Lynch

I had been going back and forth on this one, but the more I think about it, the less enthused I am about the cost and the severe lack of functions.

I'm passing on it.

[Dick Lynch Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:23PM]

@gerrrg Your a smart feller.

[Standingfast Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:25PM]

@Dick Lynch

I'd get one if it was $300 or sub. The price is really painful on this one...

[MrDiSante Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:37PM]

@Dick Lynch
I'm not trolling, I am serious about this: where is the link to the engadget without Apple news feed? Please and thank you.

[MRCUR Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:50PM]

@Dick Lynch - I'll second your order for zero.

[ToniCipriani Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:28PM]

@Dick Lynch

I'm donating to whoever starts a SmashMyiPad.com fund...

[werty1432k Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:29PM]

@MRCUR What ever your thoughts are on the iPad at least this we can all agree on.

After years of speculation, rumours and leaks, the Apple Tablet is finally ready for sale. wow.

[phobic99 Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:40PM]

@ToniCipriani

Looks like someone is already doing just that since the site is up right now.

[theswiss Posted Mar 11th 2010 11:28PM]

@Vaio especially those who're bitching around right now they will be the first ones to get it and after 2weeks they'll start sing love songs about it...

[MosesusedaniPad Posted Mar 12th 2010 1:04AM]

@Dick Lynch

I know at least a dozen people that want an iPad, so your zero is cancelled out. You'll be one of the few that won't have one. Enjoy your JooJoo or HP Slate. In a year you can sell either of them on eBay as rare items.

[Makis Posted Mar 12th 2010 2:10AM]

@Dick Lynch I'll have one...Slate

[darkmax Posted Mar 12th 2010 3:39AM]

@Dick Lynch

I wish your prediction is true, but after the last few years of looking at the iPhone....

Let's put it this way, the endorsements from the techno-savvies wannabes in Hollywood, and the stupidity of the majority of Apple fanbois, must not be underestimated.

[sonola777 Posted Mar 12th 2010 4:06AM]

@Dick Lynch If you're not interested in buying the iPad and your order is zero, then why bother making a comment? Next time click the Apple free version of Engadget. Stop trolling, and stop spoiling it for people that are actually interested in buying one.

[rj7855 Posted Mar 12th 2010 4:14AM]

@Dick Lynch

I will add 0 to the preorder list

[johnhmeyer123 Posted Mar 12th 2010 4:55AM]

@Standingfast Lol are you kidding me?

[commonman Posted Mar 12th 2010 5:39AM]

@Dick Lynch I'll take 2 so now Apple's up 1 Dick 0. Just waiting for 8:30. How silly you all are gonna look when you read the pre-order results. If I'm wrong then I'm the fool.

[commonman Posted Mar 12th 2010 7:11AM]

@Standingfast If it was $300, you'd want if for $200, if it was $200, you'd want it for $100. This device was not made for you. It was made for me, a film/video maker that can take this into a room and show my work...beats handing them a DVD.

[TPJ Posted Mar 12th 2010 8:04AM]

@commonman Exactly. Being a photographer, this beats walking in and handing potential clients a *gasp* paper book.

Yes, it's just a big iPod Touch. That's why I'm buying it.

[steel Posted Mar 12th 2010 8:49AM]

@Dick Lynch

Thanks, Engadget. Now, on to things I care about: When will the Courier be available?

[windywoo Posted Mar 12th 2010 9:41AM]

@TPJ Can you connect it to a projector instead of having clients pass it around the room? Are your clients so gullible as to be impressed by you handing them a big iPod instead of a book?

[pencilmind Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:58PM]

@MosesusedaniPad

no.

[brettdunnam Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:34PM]

I'm interested to see what kind of volume of orders Apple will get. I'm thinking not as many as usual.

[Dick Lynch Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:35PM]

@brettdunnam How much mark up should one expect on Ebay? It may be worth purchasing for gain.

[gentlefury Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:27PM]

@Dick Lynch

Im thinking the same thing....especially at xmas time!

[cobaltage Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:41PM]

@brettdunnam
I would guess that most of the people purchasing the iPad when it is first available for pre-order will be developers. Of course die-hards and people very interested in the iPad but who don't live near an Apple Store will pre-order. But there's very little reason to expect in advance that there will be a huge demand. Like the iPhone, there won't be large numbers of people lining up until the second generation.

In fact, if Apple expected a huge demand, there would be no on-line pre-orders at all. So clearly Apple is also not expecting that so many people will be interested in the iPad that it will tax their supply and distribution.

[abedinthehouse Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:51PM]

@Dick Lynch
If thats your game, your late to it.

Your supposed to buy it in the mass straight through Apple for reselling, get a discount, and than start selling online.

My friends brother did that with the iPhone originally, and he made hundreds of thousands profit.

[Tegeril Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:54PM]

@cobaltage

Like the iPhone, large amounts of people wont be lining up? I suppose you didn't get a first generation iPhone then. The lines were gigantic.

[cdf74dc9 Posted Mar 12th 2010 12:30AM]

@brettdunnam

Fanboi will buy anything from them. Even if its XXXL version of the iPad. The iphone 4g better worth the wait :/

[Cy Starkman Posted Mar 12th 2010 1:30AM]

@cdf74dc9

If you are waiting for something it is rarely going to feel worth it, you've invested too much.

[BergerFan Posted Mar 12th 2010 5:21AM]

@brettdunnam You won't see iPhone-esque lines, but compared to other tablets, the demand will be just the same.

[cobaltage Posted Mar 12th 2010 6:06AM]

@Tegeril
I had no idea. I wasn't really paying attention. I should have written, "Like the first generation iPhone, I won't really be paying attention to how people are lining up."

[macmann Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:34PM]

GIMME GIMME GIMME!

[maddawg579 Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:40PM]

@macmann
Waist.Of.Money

[maddawg579 Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:42PM]

@maddawg579
Shit... wrong 'waste'.

Engadget really needs an Edit button.

[macmann Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:48PM]

@maddawg579
Waste.Of.A.Reply
And Engadget doesn't need an edit button, we need a button to block trolls like you.

[angermeans Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:50PM]

@macmann Nothing is funnier than watching a troll suck at his job

[dcoaster Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:50PM]

@macmann Please, invigorate the economy for us. No one else wants this overpriced iPod.

[macmann Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:52PM]

@dcoaster
I'll tell you what, let's meet back here on the 3rd of April once all the iPad's are sold out.

[Dick Lynch Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:21PM]

@macmann Of course it's gonna sell out. That's what sheep do. Case in point: Susan Boyle sold 8 Million albums.

[kjmathew Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:28PM]

@maddawg579 Amen to the edit button: "but know we know"? Shouldn't it be "but now we know"?!

[SpeeGold Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:06PM]

@macmann
Because we all know that sales equate to the quality and usefulness of a product...

[espire Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:34PM]

I'm a fan of Apple and all, but is such a post really necessary?

[think before you react Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:37PM]

@espire
Actually I appreciated the post. I was wondering what time it would go on sale. I didn't want to have to spam apple.com all night. Thanks engadget. 11 hours 52 minutes and counting....

[liftedngifted1 Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:55PM]

@espire No thanks I'll wait for the JooJoo

[youngluck Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:26PM]

@liftedngifted1 SO you can have a web browser for the same price. Smart fella we got right here.