Is anyone here going to the WWDC? It's scheduled for Aug. 7-11 of 2006 and they will be showing off OS X 10.5!!!! To bad it's $1,295 for one ticket

That's right. Sign up as an ADC Premier member with 10 friends.
You can then order 10 MBPs as a group and still get a good discount even when you factor in the $3,500 membership fee.

And as a Premier member, you then get free Leopard upgrade for all 10 MacTels and get a free WWDC pass.

Per the MacTel Savings worksheet, in a no sales-tax state like Oregon, Delaware and Montana, you can buy 10 MBP 17s for $25,890 as a Premier member.

That includes the $3,500 membership.

Divided by 10, that boils down to $2,589 per MBP. If you include the fact that all MBPs are eligible for a free Leopard upgrade, the effective price is $2,460 ( $2,589 - $129 ).

That's $339 cheaper than retail (12 %)!

And for your troubles, you get all the goodies from ADC:

• Apple Developer Connection Shirt
• Access to pre-release software
• and a free WWDC pass!!!!

And don't forget! Each HW discount unit is eligible to get discounts on accessories as well. That's conceivably 10 iPods (for $349 each, $50 less than retail) and 10 20" Monitors (for $719 each, $80 less) at a discount, so the savings pile on.

It may just be worth the trouble.