I had a good play with this scope at the EDS show today, and a long chat with couple of UK Tek guys on the stand. In no particular order....
This thing is BIG, really big. Too big for a lot of benches.
The pins on the digital probe are numerous and tiny - I have doubts as to how robust they will be.
There are some aspects of the touch UI that are a bit non-intuitive, in particular double-tap on the icons at the button to bring up a menu instead of touch and hold. I couldn't really see why it shouldn't just bring up the menu on the first touch, and if there is a reason not to, touch and hold would be more sensible (cf. Android).
Having to drag the icons to the trash to turn off is horrible, mostly because of the distance you have to drag (Tek guy agreed)- the menu could just have a "go away" icon.
Although the UI looks pretty fast and responsive at first look, once you start turning other channels on, it slows down. With a lot of channels, it slows A LOT. Unless there was some weird setup causing this ( no, decodes weren't on) it was looking pretty terrible with all channels on. It may be that reducing memory would help, though pressing "fast acq" reduced the memory so much that the waveform looked terrible.
They thought there would be one on its way to Dave at some point ( and that contrary to rumours, Dave hadn't pissed them off) , though reading between the lines it seems Tek place a LOT less importance on social media type stuff than Keysight. (I did offer to do a teardown vid but they didn't seem too interested..!).
There is new firmware coming that will add some things that are currently missing, including roll mode, power analysis, segmented memory, and another major thing the guy couldn't immediately recall.
I mentioned the issue that someone brought up in the RTB2004 thread that colours should be user-changeable to help colourblind users & they thought it was a good point & would feed it back.
There were a few small things that I remarked as I was going along that the RTB UI did that they could benefit from copying.
They are planning a "headless" version, like the old Agilent L series rackmount units.
No indication that the ASICs will find their way into lower-end models any time soon ( but no denial either so hard to say).
Unlimited number of decodes ( which suggests all in software, as does some slowdown when enabled) UART up to 10Mbaud, and has options for 10/100Ethernet and USB up to HS 480M ( all extra cost of course).
It does UART packet framing (like the RTB will once they fix the bug) , but does it wrong. You can only frame by terminating character ( and only certain chars - from memory 00 0a 0d and ff, not any user defineable char), and no option to frame by timeout. The way that sparse data bytes are presented is poor to the point of being barely useable in some situations as the length of the "envelope" for the text is limited to the length of the data onscreen. e.g. if you have two 9600 baud bytes(~1ms long) , 20mS apart onscreen, you can't read the decode data for either of them ( unless you use packet mode, which loses all timing relationship between the waveform and the decode data) .
Decodes are handled like the RTB - as an extra trace with size and position adjust, but seem to only be 2 size settings that are barely different - nothing like as good as how the RTB will show vertical columns of digits to get more on the screen.
Probably the worst thing was that at slow timebase speeds, it does NOT do continuous screen update ( i.e the new data sweeping across the screen) , it just updates the whole screen at the end of each sweep. I spent a long time failing to make their guys understand why this was a problem - I think I'll send them a video to illustrate the point. I did persuade them that roll mode, while useful for some slow waveforms would not solve this for cases where you have a slow event that you want to see what happens after a trigger without waiting however many seconds it takes to fill the screen.
When I mentioned the issue Dave raised of losing analogue channels when you want digital, they claimed their pricing was such that their 6ch unit with 2x digital probes was comparable to competitors' 4+16ch offerings. I've not checked that but am skeptical.