Starting at $4,500, the Studio 2+ was the ultimate Windows all-in-one. It featured the best touchscreen display on a unique hinge that allowed the screen to lay down like a draft board.

The end of production on the Surface Studio 2+ will likely mark the end of the Surface Studio line as a whole. Sources suggest no Studio 2+ successor is currently lined up.

Vole only updated Surface Studio twice in its eight-year run. Like the Surface Laptop Studio, the desktop's claim to fame was a unique hinge design for its screen, which could be repositioned to make it easier to draw on with the Surface Pen. However, the desktop's high cost and its perennially outdated internal components made it less appealing.

The longest-lived Studio desktop was the Surface Studio 2, released in 2018. It wasn't replaced until a revised Surface Studio 2+ was announced in late 2022. It used an even higher-quality display panel but still used previous-generation internal components.

 This might not have been so bad if Microsoft had updated it more consistently. However, this model went untouched for so long that Microsoft had to lower Windows 11's system requirements specifically to cover Studio 2 so that the company wouldn't be ending support for a PC that it was still actively selling.

The Studio 2+ was the desktop's last hurrah, and despite jumping two GPU generations and four CPU generations, it still didn't use the latest components.

More consistent updates like those from Vole for the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop could have mitigated this, but the outfit did not bother.