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New Keysight 4 Channel Scope (1200 X-Series)
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Hydrawerk:
Is there going to be a successor for DSOX2000 and DSOX3000 from 2011?
Berni:
I dunno the X3000 still feels like very modern scope, it even has a touchscreen. All the other low cost scopes ware just playing catch-up to it for a good few years when it was released. Now that they have caught up Keysights low end scope lineup is on par with everyone else.

But even when the successor to the X3000 launches i wouldn't expect there to be that much new. I still use a old MSO6000 that is pretty much the predecessor to the X3000 series. The two scopes are very similar in operation, UI and performance. What you get with the X3000 is higher waveform update rate, waveform generator, touchscreen, some modernization, but at the same time the 6000 has 4 times as much waveform memory, 1/5 the boot time, all interfaces available without a add-on module (USB Ethernet GPIB), higher resolution screen etc...

The now discontinued MSO6000 series is so old that the predecessor to that still had a CRT screen and carried a Hewlett Packard logo. So id say we have at least 5 years or not more before Keysight would consider updating it.

Scopes don't age anywhere near as quick as consumer electronics like TVs
nctnico:
Well the memory depth on the Keysight scopes is extremely poor. Even compared to their A-brand competitors.
Berni:

--- Quote from: nctnico on March 11, 2019, 09:43:19 am ---Well the memory depth on the Keysight scopes is extremely poor. Even compared to their A-brand competitors.

--- End quote ---

Yeah true in numbers the gap is pretty big. But in practice going from 10K to 1M is a massive difference, but going from 1M to 100M is not. For the ocasonal cases where deep memory is useful one can usually get around it with segmented memory modes.

They are one of the rare vendors that keep sample memory inside the ASIC  This limits the size of memory but gives it a huge speed advantage. Other scopes slow down when large memory is selected. The Keysight scopes don't even have a option to select less than max memory because the scope keeps running at top speed even when using all of it. This sort of consistent quick speed of both the acquisition and UI is a major selling point of these scopes that is not visible on the spec sheet. I personally really enjoy that it feels like using a analog scope with how instant everything is.

All depends on what you want from a scope.
nimish:
Hmm...$2000 for a scope that's using decade old tech, when I could get a RTB2002/4 with 10bit and also from a top tier test equipment maker

Or 1/2 that to roll the dice on a rigol DSO5000

...Who is the target market for this?

When is keysight going to invest in a new ASIC or one that can support deep memory?
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