Plus one here too - drawing on screen is essential for my job. It would be great to replace my tablet with a Frawework Laptop
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Id be happy with a 1920x1280 3:2 touchscreen in the framework 13
I would be happy with literally any resolution panel as long as it is a touchscreen. Love my FW13 but I picked up my ~2016 HP Spectre x360 the other day and despite it being a MUCH older laptop, it felt newer and more high-tech simply because of the panel. I remain confused as to why my kids’ dirt-cheap school chromebooks have touch screens but my ~$2k laptop doesn’t…
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And another voice agreeing that touchscreen is a requirement for my laptops, especially with other laptops improving their repair options.
I don’t quite understand the issue: the motherboard (if I remember right) has the ability for touchscreen, and there’s touchscreen panels out there… Just the right sort of ribbon cables / connectors / etc need to be done right?
It’s the fact that it’s not exactly a “standardised” interface or something?
… Couldn’t you just go with one specific one and there you go? Maybe try to standardise on something at least?
There are? I though there weren’t any in the right size.
If there is one that physically fits it is pretty much just a case of wiring it up, the display connector on the mainboard has both i2c and usb for touch, usb would be pretty much plug and play, i2c may need customized drivers.
If the panel is physically thicker it may need a custom bezel which would complicate things.
As far as I know it’s just that there aren’t any in the particular screen size it uses. I do kinda wish they went a teeny bit larger with the 13 so we would have more display option. personally I don’t care about touch but for oled panels we have the same issue, either just a little too big or way too small.
Wasn’t the first, won’t be that last.
I personally don’t care about touch but evidently a whole lot of people do.
I like the idea of touchscreens, but then I remembered that I rarely touched the screen on my Surface Go when the keyboard was attached. The only time I used a touchscreen regularly was when I had a large all-in-one desktop where I would instinctively touch the screen to clear pop-ups.
I’d get one just for the sake of upgrading things.
I want to buy a Framework, but I really need touchscreen! I have a repetitive hand / finger pain disability, so it is imperative. I’m on my laptop day & nite, so without touch screen I couldn’t work. PLZ resolve our requests!
I have had three (yes 3!) Dell XPS 13s in a row, after several other Dells. I’m so frustrated with Dell’s business practices, let alone their product. All 3 of my XPS 13s have had the same problems, starting with the charging port & other smaller quirks. They’ve each needed serviced within a few months & ultimately replaced within 12 to 20 months. My current XPS has a dysfunctional charging system, keyboard & clicking dysfunction, & the WiFi card, which is soldered into the motherboard is fried. The motherboard costs almost as much as a newer model. Yet, in shopping each time, I could not find the high-end specs I need in a small lightweight compact, yet powerful machine, so I’ve still considered another XPS, hoping against odds my experience might be different. I’ve been looking for alternatives so I don’t foolishly repeat my same mistake, investing in yet another Dell, even though it looks like the best available with the features I need. I’m excited to find Framework where I can replace, repair, and upgrade as desired. I want my next laptop investment to last. But I need the touchscreen feature!
I’d def consider an HP ID I could find the specs I need at an affordable price. But I really prefer the ability to custom build, repair, & upgrade myself. My XPS has great specs with an 11th Gen i7, 32GB ran, 2T SSD, touchscreen, backlit keyboard, and fingerprint ID. I’m spoiled with it, & don’t want to downgrade. But I don’t want to have to repurchase every 20 months either, not be without it during my weeks off servicing. So yeah, I’m still looking at a Framework, maybe with a digitizing film over the screen… 
There was a product called Airbar that would’ve been a solution, but hard to find now& expensive…
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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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…
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.)
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.