Screen Size and Waveform Viewing Area
Tektronix x 3 Series MDO (11.6” HD 1920x1080 touch)	Keysight X3000T-Series (8.5” VGA 800x480 touch)

Digital Channels
Tektronix 3 Series MDO ✔ Maximum record length 10 Mpoints, even with analog channels on ✔ Minimum detectable pulse 2ns ✔ Channel-to-channel skew 500 ps typical ✔ MagniVu high speed sampling offers timing resolution of 121 ps	Keysight X3000T-Series ✗ Maximum record length 4 Mpoints with no analog channels on, 500 kpoints with analog channels on ✗ Minimum detectable pulse 5ns ✗ Channel-to-channel skew 2 ns typical ✗ Digital channel sample rate of 1 GS/s gives 1 ns timing resolution

Long Record Length Navigation and Search
Tektronix 3 Series MDO ✔ 10 Mpoints record length on all channels, standard ✔ Intuitive waveform navigation pan/zoom easy scrolling through long records	Keysight X3000T-Series ✗ Maximum 4 Mpoints record length ✗ Limited navigation buttons and multiplexed horizontal controls

Spectrum Analyzer
Tektronix 3 Series MDO ✔ Flat frequency response, 9 kHz to 1 GHz ($1,500 value FREE) or 3 GHz (optional) ✔ Dedicated RF hardware with guaranteed RF specifications ✔ Intuitive on-screen controls for fast adjustments. ✔ Spectrogram display shows frequency and amplitude changes ✗ MDO3000 does not provide synchronized time- and frequency-domain display	Keysight X3000T-Series ✗ FFT amplitude is -3dB at analog channel bandwidth ✗ Software based FFT, no specifications ✗ Multiplexed front panel and menu controls for FFT ✗ Spectrogram Display not available. ✔ Gated FFT display correlates the time and frequency domains.

Spectrum display comparison, 3 Series MDO offers automatic markers and spectrogram display.

Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Tektronix 3 Series MDO ✔ Optional and upgradable ✔ Up to 50 MHz function generation, 13 predefined functions ✔ Arbitrary waveform generation with 128k waveform memory and 250 MS/s output rate	Keysight X3000T-Series ✔ Optional and upgradable ✗ Up to 20 MHz function generation, 11 predefined functions ✗ Arbitrary waveform generation with 8k waveform memory and 100 MS/s output rate

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