Something also of note is that when you add the LA, the sample rate is halved again, so if you run 3 or four analogue channels and any number of LA channels. the maximum sample rate drops to 156.25MSa/s. Whether the trigger is on an analogue or digital channel didn't affect the maximum sample rate.
That's a bummer -- both, the sample rate restriction.....
I agree. Honestly, the scope is great value but after reading first user reports here I pass and go for a different option.
It cannot be a "great value" when you pass, though..
The prospective buyers (like you and me) should really wait a little bit till the first surge of "happiness" after the purchase of a new cute lovely gadget with VESA mount cools down (a buyer's psychology phenomenon) and people start to evaluate the stuff much more critically. I've seen only 1 statement in this forum the buyer indicated he will return the scope..
As I wrote before, this scope would be "a great value" when produced in 802/812/822 configuration only, at say $199/$249/$299, targeting explicitly the entry level segment (thus setting the expectation properly), moreover shipped without those most visible bugs (and I would perhaps tolerate the bugs knowing they will fix them soon). With adding another 2 channels and the LA and the AWG they simply overloaded the low cost tiny hw infrastructure of this scope, imho.
Even though it is a good value for the beginner, the people migrating from say their basic 2ch CRT scope to something more digital, and people requiring a 2nd, portable scope for occasional work battery powered, but - all the users here reviewing the scope are the advanced users - and it could easily be after a month or two many of them would consider this specific series a flop..
It can still be great value, at least for the 804 and 814. It works reasonably well AFAIK, and for les than 500€ after VAT you get a 4 channel scope, 12 bit resolution, and HDMI out.
I'm not sure about the 900 series though. The FRA (main use for the AWG) and the LA seem to have quite a few problems that prevent them from being truly useful.
Still, if the trigger, cursors, statistics, math, and FFT work alright, along with the 12 bits, the 800 series is a killer scope for the money, and great value for a beginner. Also, I think that with a new Rigol scope, the "flop" timeframe is longer than one or two months.
The 2 channel ones look pretty good for a second 12-bit basic scope too.