EEVBlog #1159 Dave Jones reviews the DM42

[pier4r]

Saw the video. Not bad but the guy on youtube often does this "I try without even knowing how it works" or "I try without being prepared" that actually is not that professional. It mixes not so good videos with his electronical explanations that are obviously better.

The same happened with a desktop calculator from hp (the 9830 maybe?), where he couldn't figure out many things. No wonder, it is a tool to solve complex stuff, not a trivial toy that one can master intuitively.

I find it a bit bad that some youtubers do not prepare before a video, as they foster the idea "everything should be simple and preparation is not needed". On the other side you have other youtubers that do amazing work and they don't mention it (crash courses, military history visualized, hpcalc videos themselves, etc...), so people think "To do an high quality video one doesn't need much preparation".

But yes the help file missing for a 200€ thing was a blow.