* I have other Irks - like the slow saving of screenshots to USB memory (I love to annotate debugging or problem resolution sessions, and screenshot a lot - and that drives me nuts sometimes).
Why don't you connect the scope directly to your pc instead of using a usb-pen?
That works much faster. Screenshots are saved on the pc almost instantly.
No need to hassle with a usb-pen.
I was working in the living room so not next to my computer - I could've used the laptop but was looking for an intermittent thump that took hours to capture - so the USB is very appealing to the lazy... Anyway - very appealing but performance could be better.
(the intermittent thump ended up being a 7824 that loosened, would thermally shutdown and send the analog sections to -24V only...).
Were I to use it for work - depending on the type of work - of course - it may not be up to the job. But as a home lab having the extra features at an affordable price makes sense.
I can't imagine a professional who uses a scope in this priceclass at work.
Imho, this is a scope for hobbyists for use at home.
Nothing wrong with that.
Not sure about that. The Pass/Fail functionality doesn't sound like a "home" type of use case. Perhaps as a cheap manufacturing scope for QA?
Also - given the education section on their website - I can definitely see my professors having a ball screwing with students for setting up the scope incorrectly....
In my experience technicians are way more picky than engineers... I can definitely imagine the aerospace technicians I worked with not liking the scope (very "hi end" brand oriented folk).
None of the design engineers I ever worked with really seemed to care much about what scope or device it was. Perhaps in the old days we were old school? (I even remember University days having to design a mixer - loved Mini-Circuits and their awesome design book back then - Just so we could measure the performance of the antenna with the Anritsu).