Yes.
Yes ?
Ah, but you see, this is a different kind of excitement
@tv84 I haven't read this whole thread yet (will do now!) but anything we can get excited about again? :p
When you get yours, we can play a little in the Android world.
I saw that its based on android, no more complex FPGA inside of the SoC and no more FPGA to do SPI routing. Didn't see the 'finger' port though, but I know these android SoC's tend to support USB boot mode. And since it is Android based, those two buttons @eevblog found on the PCB, are likely the reset and 'wake'/'ok' button, usually used for various things a phone needs those for, but also to trigger 'recovery mode' most likely
Starting post on hacking these things
but nothing concrete yet obviously: p
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hacking-the-hdo1khdo4k-rigol-12-bit-scope/msg4446907/#msg4446907 (dave didn't even give us a serial bootlog!! :p)
Dave never did a teardown of an MSO8000 or the DS70000 (those extra zero's are on the MAX, so not the DS7000) did he? I wonder if that DS70000 uses the same architecture, with an android/Rockchip in place. We know the MSO8000 is based on a 64bit zynq-mp. I bet that front-panel PCB is the same as the MSO8000/DS7000/DS70000 though; reuse where you can, and since they want to re-use their probes, this makes of course a lot of sense there.
From a spec pov, we also know that the MSO5000/MSO8000 certainly differ in hardware and capabilities, as did the DS7000. So hacking an MSO5000 to a DS7000 was never possible, e.g. MSO5000 had 350Mhz max bandwith, the DS7000 500Mhz, 8GSa/s vs 10GSa/s etc. Likewise we see that the HDO1000 is lower spec (2GSa/s max vs 2GSa/s) Memory is also different (less chips, less cost obviously). So unlocking will be a thing, but only to enable the 'top spec' in range, not to make an HDO1000 into a HDO4000.
With this in mind, as mentioned before, yes, 12bit ADC, low noise; but the MSO5000 (especially unlocked/max spec) still beats the HDO4000, IF you do not need 12 bit precision.
Btw, anybody notice this (rigolna, so vendor pricing probably is even lower) 799 for the 4 chan variant, 909 for the 2 chan variant? lol! (did we ever see the PCB of a 2 chan variant btw? is it identical with just some chips missing?