That the much-talked-about Apple iPad, which launches Saturday, April 3, is a ‘polarizing’ product is evident from the fact that different categories of people perceive the device differently – while the fans are lumping up Apple’s claims of the device being an ideal way to consume media; the techies are apprehensive about its personal computing capabilities!

Designed and built by a team of perfectionists, the iPad holds an intriguing appeal for people who essentially ‘consume’ content by the way of books, videos, music, photos, Web browsing, e-mails and the like. However, for techies, and people who ‘create’ content, the device is anything short of revolutionary.

For most of the ordinary people, the fast and light iPad apparently is a “magical revolution” – thanks to its bright and responsive multitouch screen and its easy-to-navigate software. But, for the techies, the forthcoming tablet device is “laughably absurd” because it is opined that serious computer work cannot be done without a mouse.

While the fans are keen on iPad’s features like a bigger multitouch screen, new iBooks e-reader app, 150,000 currently-available iPhone apps, AT&T service option on the cellular model (to be available after a month), among other things; techies basically hate the lousy typing experience on the device, its limited e-book content, no Flash, no multitasking, no USB, no camera, and a lack of many other functions that are a part and parcel of the ‘more-economical-than-iPad’ laptops!