Me? I'm gonna relax and enjoy my 4-channel, top-build-quality, sub-100Mhz-with-four-channels-enabled, 300 Euro oscilloscope... (thanks, Rigol!)
that is probably price without vat...on batronix....and that's not the best price in europe it seems to me (marmad already mentioned another option
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/rigol-ds1074z-oscillosope/msg514730/#msg514730see marmad, i do know how to use search
i can also read. a lot. esp. if it saves me money.
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come to think i almost bought 1052 from china.
and some leftovers from back pages:
rolycat (about the rigol and hacking)..that's a gray area but also an area where it would be real easy to prove (in the court of law) that rigol actually likes things to remain just like this. (just by showing sales figures for 1052)
marmad (about search capabilities)...just like i wrote in added edit "it's over, google found us just now, now everybody knows!" which was written prior to your post.
so yeah, now you can, but then? no.
what surprised me was the forum search had the simillar lag as google....
it essentially boils down to what miguelvp said few posts later
They tried to prevent it but they didn't use the algorithm properly and the private key kind of leaked, don't recall the details, they are buried in the monster thread somewhere.
or what you said
(part of the problem with spread-out information on this blog)
now, i know what that thread is, but 99% of the planet doesn't, but in essence you're right...who cares if they don't? 1% (or less) of populaton knows what scope is anyway....
overall a good post from miguel there, and just about the only thing rigol could do (bare in mind that they have rather lil incentive to do anything if sales go like this, and they will go) is to connect scope to web and then update every so often to check if it was hacked (if so, then you..huhm...pay to u nlock it again? hehe).
but nobody would buy such a scope.
somebody mentioned tek analog scopes of high bandwidth: these flopped for me just based on dimensions....1054z is about the size of 10mhz portable scopes that are now 30 years old.
that's pretty amazing.
(not going into performance specs at all, tek just won't fit on my table (and is not protable at all), and i won't be getting bigger table because of analog scope...)