On the other hand, it does offer a cheaper path to getting a logic analyser with protocol decoding in there than the Agilent. And if bandwidth and budget is more important than update rate, you'd get to 350MHz cheaper with the Hameg line. (Faster than that, and you'd have to go to the Rohde & Schwarz brand instead of Hameg. Same company though, and those do have a good update rate. Probably not affordable, mind you.)
At the time when I was looking for an oscilloscope, I settled on a Hameg 1508-2. More expensive than similar bandwidth options from Tek, Rigol or Instek at the time, but a much better performer. The short sample memory of the low end teks (2.5k) scared me at the time, already having had experience with the TDS3000 series which, though having more (10k), were already prone to aliasing. And the 3000 was above the hobby budget already. Rigol, eliminated ater hearing the fan and seeing it at work (noisy signal! Though the TDS2000 series weren't much better). Didn't feel like getting a PC scope. What remained was a Voltcraft DSO-8104 (rebadged Instek GDS-2104). It seemed all right after talking with a representative. Unfortunately, they didn't tell me the truth. Said it was silent, while in reality it had a more annoying fan than the Rigol. Worse, its power supply was terrible. It showed regularly repeating bursts of strong EMI on all channels (close to 200mV pk-pk). Borrowed an analog scope from work to check where it came from, and the analog one started showing the same as soon as the Voltcraft one got turned on in the same room. So that one went back to the seller. There wasn't much left in the affordable categories at that point, so I ended up taking the Hameg, analog/digital combiscope. That one was initially defective (just a little thing), but got fixed quickly by the manufacturer and has served well so far. A very capable device, even if it cost more than what I initially intended to spend.
Agilent was not an option at the time (the affordable ones were Rigols), but if I were to be in the market for a new scope today, it would definitely be considered, but I wouldn't rule out the Hameg combiscopes either. I probably would not consider the new all-electronic Hamegs though, if I didn't already have analog on the HM1508-2. They might be better than any other cheap digital out there except the Agilent, but with the Agilent out there even that isn't good enough anymore... Unless protocol decoding is a killer feature for you I guess.