Apple iPad Pre-Order Pre-Sales started 30 minutes ago online. Apple iPad Pre-Order Pre-Sales at Apple.com are for the Wi-Fi today.

If you want the iPad Wi-Fi, get over to Apple.com ASAP. If you do the iPad Pre-Order Pre-Sales today, you will get your iPad Wi-Fi in early April.

Analysts will watching today if the Apple iPad Pre-Order Pre-Sales will be swift or lackluster. Two items that could determine today’s outcome are whether a) certain negative initial reviews impacted consumer sentiments and more importantly will b) consumers just wait for the 3G availability in the next few weeks.

The 3G versions comes out later in April but won’t go on presale today.

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REVIEWS

Will some negative reviews impact iPad Pre Orders today? Newsweek reviewed the iPad as follows:

“Steve Jobs is unveiling the Apple iPad, the company’s feverishly anticipated tablet device, in San Francisco at this minute. NEWSWEEK Technology Editor Daniel Lyons is on the scene—and says the audience’s reaction is surprisingly tepid. “I haven’t been this let down since Snooki hooked up with The Situation,” Lyons e-mails.”

Netbookboards.com’s review of the iPad was the following:

“I think the iPad will be a failure for Apple. The main problem I see for it is that there is no market for such a device. There is nothing that the iPad can do that cannot be done by a laptop, iPhone, or iPod Touch. There is no incentive for customers to spend, at a minimum, $499 on this device.”

And Adobe’s Adrian Ludwig commented about the iPad’s absence of Flash  “restrictions” as follows:

“It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple’s DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web

“If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab — not to mention the millions of other sites on the web — I’ll be out of luck.”

Apple iPad Pre-Order vs. 3G

Will you pre order the Wi-Fi or wait for the 3G?

Today’s Pre-Order is limited to U.S. buyers only at Apple.com. Pricing starts at $499 (16 GB Wi-Fi) and could cost you $829 (64 GB). The iPad Wi-Fi will arrive early April. 3G pre-sale dates are pending with it arriving late April.

For continuing coverage of the tablet’s launch on LALATE click here: http://news.lalate.com/category/apple.