Todd Harper, a junior at UTC, waits outside the MacAuthority at Hamilton Place Mall early Saturday morning. Harper arrived at 6:30am to stake out his spot for the 32gb iPad he hopes to buy.Chattanooga residents now have Apple’s latest gadget at their fingertips.
A small group gathered outside the Best Buy on Gunbarrel Road just before the store opened at 10 a.m. today to get a first look at the iPad.
Zach Turner, mobile manager for the store, said about 20 people were given tickets for the device between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., and another 20 were handed out just before the store opened.
Best Buy received a shipment of nearly 100 iPads of varying storage capacity this morning and expects another shipment in one to two weeks, he said.