The bosses over at Apple are taking the public’s view of the iPad one of two ways: they’re happy that any publicity is good publicity, or their angry that their work has been turned into the butt (pun intended) of everyone’s jokes. From the moment McGraw-Hill’s CEO, Terry McGraw, LEAKED (more pun intended) the bloody news (ok, I’m done with the pun) that Apple (apple’s are red, right) was releasing a new device that would run on the iPhone OS and carry his company’s books called the, “iPad,” the social networking world went crazy!

iTampon would achieve #1 trending topic status on Twitter, as people mocked, clowned, and ragged on Apple’s new child.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this thing just an iPod Touch on steroids? It runs on the iPhone/iPod Touch OS, access to the Apple’s App World, and caps out at 64GB’s of hard drive space for $629 ($829 for Wi-Fi and 3G)? So let me get this right, Mr. Jobs, you’re basically selling me the Mark McGwire of iPod Touch’s? The Mark McGwire of iPod Touch’s WITHOUT THE BATTING RECORD?!?!?!? Come again? It offers me half the features that a fully featured Netbook offers, but 4x the price? Yeah, ok.

And, correct me if I’m wrong again but, isn’t this iPad just an overgrown Archos 9 PC Tablet…

And an Archos 5 Internet Tablet that runs the Android OS…

Me personally, I’d rather have the Archos 5 w/the Android OS.

But, did the geniuses (obviously ahead of their time) over at Mad TV predict this? This video dates back at LEAST 3 years. Thanks to Tafari for finding this video!

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