I still think the WS3000 is somewhat nice and with the WS3000Z the GUI speed issues should be improved, so this is a scope that I think I could like
As known, I´ve ordered a WS3024 at the beginning of 2018 to test it for our testfield department.
Because it is "cheap" and got nearly all the well known and used lecroy features.
It´s slow but this would not be a criterium for us.
A k.o. is the buggy behaviour in some cases - IF they´ll fixed them at anytime, it could be a good scope for daily testfield works.
One of the greatest bugs (for us) are the missing measuring gate lines.
So I really hoped for the SDS5000X to become a WS3000Z with a much lower price tag that would compensate for some minor limitations.
I think, the SDS5000 is the advanced model of the SDS3000 vulgo WS3000Z series.
Therefore, the price makes it very attractive and the fact, that it musn´t have the MAUI UI could be a performance win.
I´d suggest to buy some of the 350Mhz SDS5000 models for our testfield, but there was some concerns about for some reasons, E.g. we couldn´t use our AP current probes on it.
For private use, my rigol mso5 is good enough for it´s Money.
If I could/would spend more money, it would be a SDS5000 - I like the R&S RTB2000, the clear display and so on.
But they didn´t have 50Ohm Input and this is what I expecting to have, when I spend about 3000€.