Thanks for all your suggestions so far! The keysight DSOX1204G sounds right up his alley and I've written up a doc recommending it and explaining some of its features.
The E36312A power supply is interesting as well, since they claim it can work in conjunction with the oscope via benchvue. Has anyone tried it and can comment on how well this works?
Personally, I've had my eye on the siglent and it would have been my top recommendation, but unfortunately I don't control the purse strings here. And with keysight scopes already in place, moving up from the EDUX1002A to the DSOX1204G in this situation makes more sense than changing platforms and is easier to justify from the administration's perspective.
Still saving up and planning to buy the SDS1104X-E as my first personal scope though.
As a former student of a college that mostly had Tek scopes I implore you to convince your prof to buy something else - literally anything else
All of the Tek scopes we had were slow and horrible to use. It's no fun and scopes from other vendors like Keysight and Lecroy are at a completely different level
I don't know Siglent but I doubt their scopes are as poor as what Tek throws into the market
Your prof sounds a bit like the ones at my college, long away from industry and no idea how much the scope market has changed since the 70s
Haha, that was almost exactly what my labmate and I said after he rejected the siglent scope recommendation.
He's an old-school controls engineer who worked at IBM and Boeing way back in the day before getting into academia decades ago, so I doubt he's kept up with developments in the test equipment scene.
We have a few older Tektronix scopes laying around that I've tried, including a DPO2024 I think. Didn't think it was that great, and the damn thing takes several minutes just to boot up and pass self test. Was shocked at how much they go for even today.