MacBook Pro 15″ with 160Gb Hard Drive, 2Gb ram, etc, etc…

Regular Price: $2919.00 CAD
Student Developer Price: $2335.00 CAD
Cost to become student developer: $119.00 CAD
Net Savings: $465.00 (about 16%)

Plus they’ll send me OS X 10.5 Leopard for free when it’s released. (Normally $149)

Any student can do this, and it’s a totally painless process. You buy the student membership, they get you to fax them your transcript and ID, then you get to buy your computer from the ADC online store. Presumably you don’t even have to know how to develop software to take advantage.

See this and that for more info.