I'm really sorry to say this as I have been a Pico scope user for many years, but Pico scope 7 pales in comparison to Pico scope 6 in my opinion. Had you simply made Pico 6 touch screen usable, added the 30 degree increments in to the stroke rulers and a stroke overlay, you would have made substantial improvements to an already awesome program. However, I think that re-designing the entire thing was a mistake, and the latest software update just doesn't work. It keeps freezing my screen if I change the time base and I have to reboot it. If this is the future of Pico, I may have a 4425 for sale to offset my purchase of an E-scope.
I'm really sorry to say this as I have been a Pico scope user for many years, but Pico scope 7 pales in comparison to Pico scope 6 in my opinion. Had you simply made Pico 6 touch screen usable, added the 30 degree increments in to the stroke rulers and a stroke overlay, you would have made substantial improvements to an already awesome program. However, I think that re-designing the entire thing was a mistake, and the latest software update just doesn't work. It keeps freezing my screen if I change the time base and I have to reboot it. If this is the future of Pico, I may have a 4425 for sale to offset my purchase of an E-scope.
I'm not a huge fan of the new interface but you are aware that PS7 is a beta of course?
I may play with 7 but for a production environment I still use 6.
Also, feature parity between Mac and PC was a must.
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My experience is that when I first showed version 6 to people who work with real oscilloscopes all day long they thought it was not so easy to follow. When I showed them version 7 they felt more "at home".
Okay, so after using the stable version now for a few months it's growing on me. I still prefer 6, but 7 isn't as bad as I originally made it out to be. I apologize for my initial negativity. There are a few things that I think would make it better; I'm not a fan of the phase rulers, I find them hard to see, the lines on 6 were better in my opinion. I would also like to see the 30 degree increments added between the 180 degree markers, I think that would be a very helpful upgrade, especially for in-cylinder analysis. One feature of 6 that I really liked is the ability to change the screen background color. I much prefer a black background with brighter channel colors. Easier to see (yes I'm old) lol. I do like that 7 works with touch screen, it would be nice if worked with iPAD.