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Picoscope- yay or nay?
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David Aurora:

--- Quote from: 2N3055 on January 25, 2023, 05:26:22 am ---On Win it works perfectly, even with old i5-4k series..
I guess Win is what Pico users traditionally use so don't see problems
I have no idea how it works on Macs with v7, true.. What you say is not really usable , I agree.
It would be better to just say that they don't have Mac version...

--- End quote ---

Exactly. Nobody would have any reason to be pissed off if they just flat out didn't offer a Mac version, it's getting jerked around being told it does/should/will/might eventually work when it doesn't that rubbed me the wrong way. At the end of the day no matter which platform you use you're paying them the same amount, so you should get the same product quality.
boB:

I would just like to be able to annotate the traces on the screen because I can't tell which color is which !  Especially on the 8 channel Picoscope.

I do not think they have the engineering resources to work on their older product software.   

A lot of companies have trouble getting good help these days.

boB
Zucca:
It pisses me off immensely they did not respond to my post about FreeBSD
https://www.picotech.com/support/topic42140.html?&p=148720&hilit=freebsd#p148720

it would be so cool to get some traction in [ur=https://ghostbsd.org/l]GhostBSD[/url]...

The new Picoscope 7 crashes every 3-4 hours on Hubuntu for me.

Picoscope 6 rock solid...

I bought it because of protocols support and it does not take too much real estate on the bench (since I have a PC anyway).
I also did not tested the Picoscope scope "memory", normal scope does offer only limited memory, with the PC memory for signals you should be much more....
David Aurora:
So my demo unit arrived, and for about 3 minutes I thought things had turned around. Install went smooth, plugging the AWG into a channel basically worked, then I got super busy for a week doing some major workshop rearranging and put it aside.

Yesterday I tried to actually use it for a job and yeah, nah, this is still not a product I can see myself using for actual work. I couldn't really sum it up in text easily so I went back after hours, flicked on my phone camera and did a quick rundown of some (not all) of the issues that were immediately obvious in the first 45 minutes or whatever of use. I think at this point it's going back in the box until the first bug release arrives.

https://youtu.be/k76kXrhbVtA
oz2cpu:
SEE this thread :

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/please-dont-purchase-pc-controlled-test-equipment/

a HUGE NAY from me to any stuff, that is ONLY control able from a PC !!
it will become trash sooner than you think, sadly..

picoscopes are very expensive, you can get a real scope, that is ALSO remote accessable,
but can still be used without a PC, the day the PC and opperating systems are out of service / compatibilities or what ever the future brings of cool computer stuff.
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