A couple of the other TUAW staffers have given you their first impressions of the iPad 2, but I'm coming at it from a different angle, because I used the original iPad for a grand total of about 20 minutes. This won't be a comparison of the new iPad versus the old; instead, it'll be my take on what this new device means to me and how it promises to reshape the way I interact with computers from now on.
When the iPad debuted in January of 2010, I wasn't particularly impressed. That's mostly because, like many other people, I'd been waiting for a device that was something halfway between an iPhone and a Mac leaning far more toward the Mac side of things, naturally.
