Damn that sucks for the pre-order guys. I can certainly see both sides of this.
I'm kinda picturing how the assembly line is ran...
Assemble base machine..burn...test...etc.
"We got an order for 5 standards...take those 5 machines that were scheduled to be an LE... just throw the standard rails on them and change the apron"
On a side note..I think I read 200ish LE were shipped. Did anyone notice the #256 number on the standard? I realize people can pick their own number..but not sure a distributor would really care if they are just ordering stock. I wonder if they are running consecutive numbers