And also, they need to actually finish to production level FW for any of these...
That's the one thing that has kept us from acquiring any Rigol instruments.
They seem to do a good job with the hardware, sometimes a really good job like these new 12 bit scopes with custom chip-sets, but don't seem to have quality firmware with loads of bugs, many of which should have caught well before release, and few and far between updates!!
We've been enticed by these new 12 bit DSOs and followed the development, and folks finding the host of bugs and such, with little efforts from Rigol for serious firmware updates, apparently they released well before any serious in-house test and evaluation performed.
Maybe this is there business model, develop good hardware platforms and employ early adopters as development product debuggers, saves in house engineering, test and evaluation costs, then only provide updates when they've collected enough information from the field users and dedicate some in house resources to fix the major shortcomings identified by their end users. Then they pass some of this $ saving on to the customer with a lower MRSP, sounds a lot like the much lower tier OEM "cheap type equipment" business model, and classic short term management, ship early as soon as it's kinda working, put $ in your pockets now, only fix stuff when absolutely necessary as it takes way from the present bottom line!
However, Rigol did, or paid a consulting group, to develop a custom 12 bit ADC chip set, so this hints at some long term thinking as why would anyone with short term mentality take on an expensive, long term, and difficult task as such??
Apparently this custom chip set is pretty good, so hats off to them for this effort!! Now if they can just replicate this effort with the firmware development and post sales support updates, they would have an outstanding product!!
Having quality & supported products from Rigol, Siglent and GW Instek, which seem to be the top middle tier OEMs, benefits all of us as these OEMs via for a sustained future and growth, and push each other for better future products!! So we're just "hoping" that Rigol's business model is not what we described above, eventually we would all suffer from this!!
Anyway, just rambling, had too many cups of coffee, need to dilute such with some brews
Best,