Which Surfaces can't be upgraded to Windows 11

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Lately, Microsoft has been constantly reminding users about the end of Windows 10 support, which is less than six months away.

So recently the company announced all the Surface devices that were originally released with Windows 10.

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With the imminent end of support for the operating system, the list has two parts: the first, showing computers that can be upgraded to Windows 11, as they meet the system requirements, and the second, devices that cannot be upgraded.

Microsoft states:

Surface models that can be upgraded to Windows 11

These devices came with Windows 10 installed, but are compatible with Windows 11.

Surface Book 2 (only on 5th Gen Intel® Core™ i8350-7U or i8650-8U processors)
3 Surface Book
Surface go 2
2 Laptop Surface
3 Laptop Surface
4 Laptop Surface
Surface LaptopGo
Surface Pro 6
Surface Pro 7
Surface Pro 7+
Surface ProX
Surface Studio 2
Surface Hub 2S

[....]

Devices that are not compatible with Windows 11 include:

Surface Book (1st generation)
Surface Book 2 (only on 5th Gen Intel® Core™ i7300-7U processors)
Surface Go (1st generation)
Surface Laptop (1st generation)
Surface Pro (1st generation)
Surface Pro 2
Surface Pro 3
Surface Pro 4
Surface Pro (5st generation)
Surface Studio (1st Gen)

If your computer is on the second list, meaning it cannot be upgraded to Windows 11, Microsoft's official recommendation is to buy a new Copilot+ Surface PC.

You can find the support article on the Microsoft website.