Developing for Tiger: Core Image

James Duncan Davidson points to his latest article for the ADC Tiger Development Series: Developing with Core Image. If you're a developer planning on working with image processing intensive programs in Tiger, you should check out the article (You may also want to read over the previous articles in the series).  Even if you're just a lay person, or a curious hobbiest, like myself, you'll find some interesting tidbits.  Davidson notes that the advances in Core Image are good for everyone: "The latest GPUs happen to be the baddest SIMD hardware on the block right now, but Core Image works well on the G4 and G5 CPUs.
This means that as long as you are running something better than a G3, Core Image enabled applications are going to be able to run just fine, thank you very much. Maybe not as fast as on a nVidia 6800, but probably fast enough for many applications to do great things with Core Image."

This is the seventh article in the series. Could that be the magic number of articles pre-Tiger's official release?
(Just making my lame attempt to jump on the rumor-mill bandwagon here).