I’m afraid the answer is “not anytime soon”. I am basing this on the fact that the Malaysia website still does not have a dedicated page for the iPad. Instead, when clicking on the iPad icon in the Apple Malaysia Store, one is directed to the generic Asia iPad page. When I checked, countries such as Australia (where the iPad is confirmed to be arriving in “late April” as per Apple’s latest iPad press release), Hongkong and Singapore all had their own dedicated iPad pages. However, both the Singapore and Hongkong pages do not have an estimated shipping date.
Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand users are re-directed to the generic Asia iPad page. So, this tells me that the iPad is not arriving before the end of April. If you want one badly, it looks like you’ll have to pay some exhorbitant prices to get one, either from the US (if you’re really desperate!) or Australia (if you’re not *that* desperate).
Sigh.
probably , we need to pay high price to get from oversea….
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 12:40 am
@Andy, ya lor
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Probably price for iPad in Malaysia when they start selling will be worth a kidney. No?
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 12:41 am
@mamakap, two kidneys and one liver actually
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I think we are going to face the same scenario with 1st Gen iPhone….
its ok anyway, we have more to decide between iPad, HP Slate and Dell Streak…
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
@artic, I hope not la. Buy all three la, with 3 separate credit cards!
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if we buy parallel import apple product, is the warranty valid in malaysia?
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
@David, I have been told yes. But I would double and triple check before getting one if this was truly important to you…I will post again if I find out…
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David Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
yes, very interested to know. i heard from friend who use a mac who told me so, apple product always has international warranty, that is why their price is high
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
March 12th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
@David, I was told that any Apple product with a battery inside qualifies for international warranty, except for the iPhone.
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