On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:12:09 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>Olin,
>
>
>Have you seen 
>
>http://www.tek.com/products/oscilloscopes/industry_comp.html?wt=550&title=Tektronix%3A%20Products%20%3E%20Oscilloscopes%20%3E%20TDS1000%20/%20TDS2000%20Series&label=http%3A//www.tek.com/products/oscilloscopes/industry_comp.html&link=http%3A//www.tek.com/products/oscilloscopes/industry_comp.html
>
>DSO - Digital Storage Oscilloscopes 
>
>Aligent VS tek.
>
>Does it convince you to buy tek? 

If it does you're being lazy - do you believe every bit of advertising you read?
Tek and Agilent have been competing somewhat enthusiastically recently - comparisons like these
always focus on those features that favour the company doing the comparison, but  
You really need to think about what's important to you - there;s no point in paying for a load of
'better' features you'll never use.  
For day-to-day usage, general 'look and feel' is very important, and this can only be judged by
actually using them.. I've used a number of different recent (<5yrs) Teks belonging to various
customers of mine and have yet to be impressed, especially with the sluggish responsiveness of the
user interface, whearas The Agilent models I;ve used  are extremely quick and well-designed in this
respect. 
And ask Tek about their scopes with 16 digital channels.. Oh, sorry, they don't have any!

If you are serious about investing in kit, you should get units on loan to try for yourself -
Agilent will provide units on 2-week loan for evaluation - I would imagine Tek to the same.





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