All I know is it took two and a half hours to get my wife's new iPad 2 activated because iTunes/Apple Store was timing out trying to get everything set up. I had thought about doing it a few days earlier, but I went with the sealed package on Christmas morning instead.

What's weird is my son's new iPod Touch took maybe a minute to connect to his iTunes account and ten minutes to sync his apps, audio, and video content. But I did that a lot earlier than I did the iPad.