Regarding the anti-aliased, nice-looking fonts: Why not? The screen resolution and grading capability is there anyway (driven by the need to display information-rich curves), so anti-aliased fonts come for free. They do not take up more space than crude bitmap fonts in lower resolution, and they do make the information easier to read.
To make it clear I
don't mind if things are "prettier"... I'm a geek too and like "cool looking" design.
But I'll take "blocky fonts" and 4 math channels any day over scope that is "cool looking" but has 1 math channel with only +/- operations...
But I
don't mind blocky (retro looking) fonts either if they do the job..
I see people getting downright giddy how cool it looks and not even noticing when it is missing basic features...
Form over substance and utility.
And that is fine if I need a movie prop...
But all I see that super high resolution, anti aliased, fully graphically designed display of screen elements was given priority over waveform update rate.. Phosphorus emulation is worse than DS1000Z and WFMs/s also...
Useless segmented mode is only made for screen display... Etc... Whole purpose of segmented mode is to capture bunch of data blocks with minimum blind time and analyze it (measurements, decode) later. Without that, it has same analytic capabilities as DS1000Z that also had same useless "Recording mode".
To explain it further, while working with a scope I was in a situation where I did say: "darn, if this screen was taller (physically, as in 20cm instead of 14cm) so I can fit 20 decode lines instead of 10 I have now, I would do this job better, faster or whatnot".
Never, ever, I was in a situation that I said : "man, if only these menus were prettier and fonts were nicer looking, I would be able to measure more data at the same time"...
To summarize, I'm not against "cool" and sophisticatedly looking GUI. I'm against that being replacement for actual capabilities.
If you ask me, Rigol should have pushed for 10" screens even with lower resolution than they have now (to make it cheap enough to make to keep the product price range), not use use panoramic display ratio and therefore provide larger screen real estate to show information, even if fonts were a bit blocky...
But... Rigol knows all this. They know that DHO800/900 with lover resolution 10" screen would be perceived as same as DHO1000 (hint: they are pretty much same except screen and slightly higher sampling rate which makes no difference for a 100MHz scope). 800 and 900 are artificially created to make product for that range and make scope lineup differentiation.
Actually DHO900 with lover res 10" screen would make DHO1000 pretty much dead in a water, sales vise ...
Same as there is no DHO1000MSO (HDO2000 ??) at the time. Why? We know motherboard has it all already.
At this moment, they want to sell you DHO4000 if you want a 12 bit MSO in that range...
As competition responds with their models and pricing reshuffling, expect changes... And the game goes on...