Mostly one, the slowness of the user interface.
the scope is slow on its own.. but let's say bearable. The moment you enable one of the features it's not usable anymore, to me.
So at work i finally had to interface with an SPI EEPROM because need for speed, this meant that during development i needed to actually use four channels while in 99.5% or more of the cases i need one or two to check the spi lines. Since the scopes on the work bench are a picoscope 2000 series and a tektronix tps i decided to bring my 1054z. Setting up serial decoding is frustrating to say the least and waiting 5 to 10 seconds to decode the new packets is even worse, after 10 minutes i switched off the damn thing, decoded by hand a couple of packets at the tektronix to see if timings and signals were correct then only used the picoscope, one channel at the time. it was that faster to proceed in this way.
you see, even tough on paper a picoscope (for example) has shortcomings over a 1054z, like
- lack of physical controls
- 48kS memory (this is an older pico, new ones start at 32MS i think for fast acquisition, in slow/continous acquisition the limit is your pc memory)
- very low wfm/s at timebases higher than 1 ms because USB2.0
- thousands of acquisition and decoded data already there, at a click.
in the real world it is a much more powerful beast.. and i can work much better with it.. beside having serial decoding that works, math that works, measurements that don't crap out, fft with some usable resolution, ETS, more decoding standards that you'll ever dream of in this price range
infact, now i use the tek only if i can't get around using two channels or if i need to do isolated measurements
I haven't sold my 1054z yet because i haven't used the hobby bench in quite a while but when i'll start playing at home again and when i'll go all deep with canbus and other automotive stuff at home too, 1054 will be unloaded to someone that will still want to buy it.
what will i get? i'd like to try a pico 5000, or a GDS-2104. if budget will be lower one of the siglent 2 chans until i will be able to afford a lecroy/keysight (but keysight only if they will update the 3k series with more memory)
no more cheap crap, that's sure.