Super keen to get one of these, is it worth waiting for other brands to respond?
I wouldn't be waiting for Tektronix.
I've heard that they were caught completely off guard by this release and don't have anything in the pipeline to compete, hence the recent panic 40% price drops were they still find it very difficult to compete.
Don't know about the others.
If you are talking something to equal the performance of the Agilent in terms of update rate, the only others one's who would have a chance in hell of doing that are Lecroy. But IIRC they aren't far into the release cycle of their latest scopes, so probably not much chance there any time soon.
I'd get the Agilent now if you are keen on it.
My only hesitation would be that unused Serial decode key on the 2000 series. They may decide to release a 2000 model with that functionality built in and maybe not offer it to previous customers as a firmware upgrade? I don't really know.
At any time if the opposition release a better scope, Agilent are in a position to simply enable extra features for zero extra production and delay cost.
The Agilent release will probably mean the others might start to include wavegen options as well in the future? But Agilent got that for free inside their ASIC, so the overhead production cost was minimal. If others haven't thought that far ahead, then they'll have to pay more to include it.
Dave.