Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be building 5 million iPads in the first half of 2010 according to FBR Capital analyst Craig Berger. Apple will be launching the device on April 3 for WiFi versions and 3G versions will launch at the end of the month. Berger expects that Apple will be building 9.3 million iPods in the March quarter, up from 4 million that was predicted. Desktop units will increase to 1 million from 500,000. Notebooks are predicted to be at about 1.7 million, up from 1 million. Berger reduced the iPhone forecast to 6 million from 7.5 million. [Barrons via Techmeme]
