@SheerLuck - I'm an impatient serf. Is there really an Apple hill to storm?
Thanks Col.Bris for posting some factoids about production. I'd not seen that information. Kinda puts it in perspective.
Knowing my luck, I'll opt to wait in the online store "queue". At least I hope that in that queue, I'm among other Apple enthusiasts or iPad2 hopefuls. My attempts in line at the Apple brick-n-mortar stores have been sharing the line mostly with wanna-be-resellers and gray marketeers. They win, I lose...for Apple, its just a sale I guess.
It is the gray marketeers getting their inventory from the Apple Stores that make me rethink whether I'll be able to make myself set foot in an Apple Store ever again.
Suppose I'll just look at the AAPL stock in my portfolio and chill. Granted, some day (soon, i hope) I'd like to be able to check my portfolio from my iPad2. Ooo should be less than a month now, probably only nine or ten months from the product refresh announcement.