With Apple having officially launched its smaller tablet - the iPad Mini - to the public on Friday, November 2, some reports revealed that the queuing up of potential buyers of the iPad Mini and the fanfare linked to the release of a new Apple device could be seen at the New York stores of the company.

However, the reports also highlighted alongside that the customers' frenzy surrounding the new iPad Mini tablet was not as strong as the mania which is characteristically associated with the release of a new product from Apple.

According to early reports, the lines of potential iPad Mini buyers seen outside the Apple stores were fairly small, especially when compared to the overwhelming demand witnessed for Apple's previous releases, like the third-generation iPad and the September 21-launched iPhone 5.

Nonetheless, though it was apparently expected that the iPad Mini's launch will be nowhere equal to the release of the iPad, reports also revealed that most of the Apple stores in Washington DC were sold out of the iPad Mini; thereby hinting at a robust demand for the device.

Meanwhile, going by the estimates put forth by some analysts about the early sales of the iPad Mini, it was projected that 1.5 million units of the smaller Apple tablet sold over the weekend, thus underscoring figures which were just about 50 percent of the debut-weekend sales of the last iPad!