Did u notice how the email says basically that machines will ship according to geographical location considerations etc ?
That basically means, that JJP will be building games in country code batches ofcourse, just like Stern does. There is no other way to build them other than this way using common sense, unless he has 2 or 3 production lines running at the same time, which to my knowledge, there is only 1 production line being built. Obviously, the country who has the most orders (USA) will get done first (or a large part thereof) then the next largest country and so on, or at least enough made per country to make it worthwhile to start n stop the production line this way using the different power supply arrangements etc..
It doesnt really matter in the grand scheme of things the way I see it, cause it means the USA customers will get the first series of machines, and by the time they have fixed all the hassles, made some production and hardware changes etc, Australian owners will be getting machines with all the hassles ironed out of them. This is good news, not bad news the way I se it. Aussie WOZ buyers will then be able to pick up a machine fully knowing it wasnt one of the first batches, which will give most of us less sleepless nights not having to worry about hassles like Stern had on the first AC/DC LE models with the bell optos etc, which later customers didnt have to go thru.
WOZ is on the home stretch now anyway.
