Update to my post above… I am definitely planning to buy FW 13, & I believe I found a source for the Airbar so I will have a touchscreen! I’ll post the link here after I confirm the URL & check how many may be available in stock. 
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Bought one for a daughter with 4 years warranty, so no new purchase for a long time. The four years worked out the problems 
I recall seeing Airbar. I wondered how well it would work. Looks like there is a 13.3" one on ebay (for windows).
I don’t want to be the naysayer, but the airbar is not a real alternative.
A native touchscreen usually comes bundled with the correct glass for it, for example my HP comes with a touch+gorilla glass option. (and a crappy bios, but this is another story )
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Of course it is not an alternative, but it’s better than nothing.
I would slap my momma for a touchscreen in my FW 13, and I bet she wouldn’t even be made if I told her why I did it.
Perhaps seeing these cries for a touchscreen littering their forums, Framework will put in the effort to making it happen. They just received a shiny new round of funding, after all…
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned.
With my Gen 11 and 3.5Kg hinges it may not work well.
Apart from any bounce after a number of taps the screen may flop. 
I would have to be very careful with very light pressure on the touch.
You speak as though this were not a modular laptop and it were stuck with the same hinges you bought it with.
As much as I will be happy with basically any touch screen on a FW laptop, I would love to be able to convert it to one of the 360° hinges and use it in a tablet mode of sorts. I really liked my HP specter x360, and I almost bought another except I like Framework’s premise and wanted something more powerful (and am soft boycotting HP because of how much I hate my printer, but that’s off topic.)
Well that’s almost rude. I’m aware of the options and was an early UK adopter. The repairability and choices were clearly the draw, but I am not going to replace perfect usable hinges even if there was a touch screen.
If there becomes a viable touchscreen as a default setup then I’d buy a new laptop.
A spare laptop is a great investment a new pair of hinges would just be a waste, unless I meet someone who wants the 3.5.
Equally I’m not going to replace a perfectly usable screen just because a touchscreen becomes available.
It not the option that I can swap upgradable bits as that become available but that I can repair and in doing so, if an upgrade is available then it really could make sense.
I would love a touchscreen but I’m happy to wait or do without.
Take care.
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Oh yeah! There’s no reason to think the ‘new’ hinges are going to resolve any problem that may become evident if I was to swap the display.
True, but I was hoping more that there will be more vendors that jump this train, and produce native alternatives to the components provided by Framework, but I guess this will take more time, and will probably require a bit different size of their potential market.
Yeah, I was about to look into investing myself if they did not make it so rigid for non-US citizens.
You’re right, it was rude and I owe you an apology. I’m sorry. I had just come over from a separate forum on Reddit on a completely different topic where conversation had been more feisty and I brought the tone with me, but that shouldn’t be an excuse. Thanks for calling me on my BS, because it was uncalled for.
Getting back on topic, I would definitely replace my screen if a touchscreen were available. Your point about it being an otherwise perfectly good screen is well taken; hopefully there would be some sort of way to repurpose it as a separate display, which would be super cool. I don’t know that I would expect that to be available as an option right away, but somebody might design one, ie cooler master or someone else. I have 3D printed enclosures and such for things before, so it would just be the electronics component of it that needs to get worked out. (Although obviously that’s the hard part!)
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Poking my head back in as I was curious if there has been any developments on a DIY solution using off the shelf parts? I’ve read that the 16 has a header for touchscreens, and I very badly want to upgrade to a 16 (I have a first gen 13), but the lack of touch is holding me back. I suppose if a DIY solution exists I could go that route.
Just another voice in the crowd here – I’d have loved to join the Framework movement, but the lack of touchscreen option is a dealbreaker for me (most interested in the 16). DIY would be okay, if it’s not too onerous.
In the meantime, looks like I’ll have to get something off the rack from someone else. Maybe by the time that laptop dies (and it wouldn’t be repairable, of course, so that time could come all too soon), Framework will have what I need…
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I’m in the same boat & will order next day if there were a touchscreen option available in 13 incher.
Will have to bite the bullet and buy something else for now.
I used to dislike touchscreens for the fingerprint/ smudge reasons but once i used an ipad & yoga w touchscreen implementation, i got used to the convenience & impossible to go back.
It is possible, 
I’ve done that, though it was a bit weird when a friend touched the screen to show me something. So the embarrassment is all that remains
I keep touching screens everywhere 
it is very difficult not to, once you get used to one. To be frank I don’t understand why this isn’t a default feature for all screens by default, but that is probably just me.
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Anyone done a touch-panel? (thinking about doing a tablet kinda build…)
What screen(s) did you use?
Hi and welcome.
Please search there’s a lot on touch screen.
This link is the general search option
https://community.frame.work/search?q=touch%20screen
Has anyone actually purchased and tried any specific parts that utilise the internal edp connection{s}?
I was looking at some today but i dont think there’s a standard for how the 40 pin connections need to be. that makes me doubt that any random edp connector is gonna work. for all we know it might even fry our mainboards 
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There are a few de-facto standard pin-outs for lcds, oleds are a whole other ballgame. The display-side of the framework uses the “standard” 4-lane, no-touch pinout so there are a lot of screens that would work with it directly, finding one that physically fits is quite a bit harder though.
It can definitely do damage if you use the wrong pinout, especially an oled one (I definitely have never done that and learned that the hard way XD)