It is on you, of course you can get your XL made by Katsukity (Japan). At the moment he is the only available supplier...
And I did not say the Software is "optional" - I said "not optimal"!
For this you should better read some posts in other forums and get yourself an impression about the quality he is giving to you!
About the workmanship, I don't even want to start about it, I can only say that I had two customers having a broken USB Port after one and a half year!
But I got plenty of requests for repairing Katsukitys devices. And there are lots of Katsukitys customers, that are requesting a repair/help from Neal at his (US) forum.
We both do not want to support/repair Katsukitys problems anymore!
http://3dscapture.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1991 And about your second question:
Yes they are different by hardware, as our product does not remove anything.
The placement is at a different position, so everything is still fully functional at our product.
Also the software is different! We don't have any limitation or any kind of stupid protection to it!
You can use it anywhere at anytime, as many times you wish!
We have now software developers for Macintosh and Linux joining us in our community. They are supporting our Hardware natively - you do not have to run any kind of emulation for it...
To write to you ''coming the next time'' does not make me happy - but we all want a real good product - worryfree - doing what you expect for every day use!
And I'm sure this is the reason why people rather get our product...