Sorry Dave I have to disagree that price is everything !! I bought a Rigol DS1054Z to do serial decode because it was cheap and everyone else was banging on about how good it was including yourself. But it was not until I used it myself in situ that I soon came up against some serious limitations and whilst it could decode a screens worth of serial data it was pretty much useless for lots of data that couldn't fit on the screen.
You are misreading Dave's statement and quoting it out of context. He didn't say price is the only thing. It should be obvious that by "everything" he means that you cannot leave price out of the equation when considering the merits of a product. Which, unfortunately, I believe he did when comparing it to the Lecroy.
I changed "price" to "price point" so it's more clear.
Products like test gear get put in categories based roughly on price point, if they did not then everyone would be talking about how wonderful their Lecroy HDO8000 was, or how they are debugging their Arduino with their Keysight Infiniium S-Series, or how slick their R&S RTO2000 looks next to their Hakko soldering iron.
Come on, lets all go out and buy the new game changing 2GHz Tek MSO58, it's only $40K ($30K if you want to skimp with the 1GHz version), and an extra $14K for the 8 logic probes, because you never know when you might need those 64 channels. And don't forget $3700 for the essential serial stuff.
On a real budget? Get the MSO56 with only 16 digital channels and serial decoding with the lousy 350MHz for only $23k. Watch the flood of reviews and hacks once countless people gets their hands on this puppy
I can't believe we are even having this conversation.
Fanboy forum threads on high end scopes and other gear don't exist because they are out of the price point of almost all of us. The Tek 5-Series is a great scope, but it's no different.
Even if I was at my former companies with big budgets I'd be hard pressed to justify this scope for the lab.
This thread exists because of the marketing hype Tek whipped up, it worked
And for the millionth time, I'm not bashing Tek or their awesome new scope.
Once all this hoopla dies down, no one on here or other forums and blogs will be talking about this scope any more because of
price point. And there is nothing wrong with that, it's just the way it is.