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Place your bets, please! Analysts, pundits and bloggers will be delivering every kind of prediction — some based in reality and others pure fantasy — from now until Apple delivers their for real and true 2011 second fiscal quarter results.

Yes, boys and girls, Apple will announcing results for their second fiscal quarter, which is different from the quarter, on Wednesday, April 20 at 5pm (EST). As always, the audio webcast with analysts will be broadcast live at that time — prepare to be blown away (as always).

Thereupon, the average analyst estimate for Q2 iPad sales is 6.23 million. Similarly, Mac sales are expected to increase by 20 percent, give or take.

With the iPhone 4 on both Verizon and AT&T (we got both kinds of music, country AND western), Apple’s going to beat last year’s Q2 total of 8.75 million smartphones.

What’s your best guess?

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