I saw over at Neowin that Apple’s iPad has estimated $54M in sales in just 6 hours. That is quite a large sum of money in such short amount of time, especially with how much hating was going on about the device itself.

According to Mashable, a group of people over at the AAPL Sanity board have done the math and come up with an estimate of the iPad pre-order sales today, based on order numbers (which are listed sequentially). What that means is the numbers are in no way accurate, though the estimates have taken other Apple Store orders into account, and have been made from various sources. Victor Castroll, an analyst with the Valcent Financial Group, backed the estimation, and suggested that there have so far been 90,000 pre-orders in the time that has passed since the iPad was made available, with 50,000 in the first two hours, which doesn’t include reservations made at local Apple Stores as no order numbers are given.

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