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Where will Oscilloscopes and DMM's be in 10yrs ?
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MathWizard:
Products like CPUs, GPUs, phones/ etc have made huge leaps since I've been using them over the decades.

I have a 1980's 200MHz DSO, and a +2015 200MHz DSO, with more options and a nicer screen and more memory, and it's lighter and more compact. That's a lower end Siglent sds1(2)04x-e. Even mid-range Siglent and Rigol scopes are into the $1000's of dollars still. I never even consider top brands, because I bet their new 50MHz scopes are still $1000.

Maybe in the last 20yrs the multi-GHz scopes, and 6-7-8d DMMs have been getting a lot better and faster. But they cost too much for most people, (not that I need a multi GHz scope).

So where do people expect us to be in another 10yrs ?
Martin72:
Hi,

At work we got some very old lecroy DSOs from the early 90s.
With 50kpts memory and 100Msa/s max. ....
So I thought this was long time ago, today it should be better, more and cheaper.
Better and more is correct, but cheaper...
Even nowadays these old scopes got features you won´t find on the modern cheap and good scopes, you find them on the modern expensive scopes of today...
Many things are getting cheaper, thank god otherwise I hadn´t a DSO.
But it seems there´s an invisible red line you can´t go under what quality/features/specs in relationship with price concerns.
Today you can also spend more than 10000 bucks on scopes from rigol and siglent.....
Circlotron:
My Rigol scope I’ve had for nine years you can still buy brand new today. So in some respects I’d say nothing will be different.
Fungus:

--- Quote from: MathWizard on October 22, 2022, 08:18:08 pm ---Products like CPUs, GPUs, phones/ etc have made huge leaps since I've been using them over the decades.

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100% irrelevant.


--- Quote from: MathWizard on October 22, 2022, 08:18:08 pm ---So where do people expect us to be in another 10yrs ?

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I think touch screens will be standard. Apart from that ... pretty much the same.

$400 DSOs already have all possible features (more or less) and the laws of physics aren't going to change to allow them to have 10Ghz bandwidth.
Bud:
They will be paper thin, cloud connected and we will pay subscription fees to use selected features.
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