While analog CRT always wins, for a beginner who does lasers, especially if it has X-Y mode, we should first ask what do you want to look at?
Just laser signals or do you do ham radio or hobby electronics, or are you a EE or ET student?
Those two questions factor into what you should choose.
I prefer CRT for most things, and you can get a decent one for 50-200$, above 200$, go just digital.
If you want USB, Pico rules, folloed by parallax's 136$ USB scope.
Steve
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