They may actually be making different internal parts for some stuff, but this reminds me of the China electronics situation. They often make 2 versions of the same equipment in China and label their cases differently with 1 version for sale in China and 1 as export, like stereos. If you can find the China version on eBay you'll get it new for a fraction of the price. One of my programmers is a Chinese version. The only difference between it and the export model is in the bios it's programmed to display 890 instead of 990. I paid about $700 less for it than the export model cost at the time. The $700 digit.
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