The speculation about future consumer Intel Macs has mostly focused on the Yonah processors, but Apple could very well use current 90 nm Pentium-M, which will drop in price once Yonah is released, for the iBook or the Mini. Also, the 65 nm Presler Pentium-D consumes less power than the current one, so it (or the Cedar Mill P4) could conceivably be used on an iMac. Intel already sells small micro and pico BTX motherboards that support these chips. I'm sure the cooling solution used on the current iMac could be adapted to Presler/Cedar Mill.
I will buy an iBook, and possibly a Mini, as soon as they come out. I don't care about Rosetta since I will be installing Windows on a small partition to run the software I currently use. Rosetta is important for current MacUsers, but not so much for switchers.
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