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SAN FRANCISCO – The updated edition of Apple Inc.'s iPad paper machine was set to go on understanding weekday afternoon, after online orders started in the primeval hours of the morning.

The Cupertino consort unsealed online income of the iPad 2 at 1 a.m. PST, hours before they module be acquirable in stores nationwide at 5 p.m. topical time.

When the example edition of the iPad went on understanding in April, Apple said it sold more than 300,000 in the prototypal day. It ended up selling more than 15 meg in the prototypal nine months, including 7.3 meg to pass shoppers in the October-December quarter.

The newborn iPad model comes with individual improvements over the example edition but the aforementioned price attach — $499 to $829, depending on hardware space and whether they can enter to the Internet over a cancellated meshwork — hobbling efforts by rivals at breaking Apple's hold on the emerging mart for paper computers.

The iPad 2 looks such same the prototypal iPad, exclusive with a sleeker, lighter embody with a arching back. Among changes is the inclusion of cameras for videoconferencing, digit on the face and digit on the back.

With the example iPad, Apple proved there is a super mart for a paper that's inferior than a laptop and more than a sharp phone, yet performs some of the aforementioned tasks. Competitors including Dell Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. hit been disagreeable to lure consumers with smaller tablets, without such success. In February, Motorola Mobility Inc.'s Xoom went on understanding with a newborn edition of Google Inc.'s Android code that was designed for tablets, not sharp phones.

To underscore the grandness of the iPad to Apple, consort CEO Steve Jobs emerged from a scrutiny yield early this month to unveil the newborn edition to bloggers and Apple enthusiasts. Jobs, 56, announced in January that he would verify a third yield of absence to pore on his health. In the last decade, he has survived a thin but curable modify of pancreatic cancer and undergone a liver transplant.

After its U.S. launch Friday, the iPad 2 goes on understanding March 25 in 26 another markets, including Mexico, New Zealand, Espana and another European countries.

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