It's closing in on four months since Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air at his Macworld Expo keynote, so it's reasonable to expect that the first Air revision is in the works. It may not come for a couple of months yet, although the cusp of April/May is a traditional time window for Apple notebook updates, but that's usually following a previous update in October/November, and not a January product introduction.

Besides the time line, the operative question is how extensive the refreshments Revision B will be. Certainly there is plenty of room for improvement. I've read what must be dozens of MacBook Air reviews over the past four months, and even the most enthusiastic Air-heads (sorry, couldn't resist ) almost invariably qualify their effusive praise with a list of shortcomings that have to be rationalized or worked around.

Personally, I think the Air is pretty cool. I like small computers. However, there are a whole raft of reasons why I wouldn't seriously consider and Air as an adequate solution to my computing needs. It would be fun to have one has a road machine, but the Air is just not suited to desktops substitute workstation duty or to serving as one's primary computer.

Can Apple "fix" the MacBook Air to a degree that I would be tempted?

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