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I am getting ready to purchase Chief Architect Premier so that I can start drawing residential house plans. I have downloaded the free trial version and tried it out on my current laptop. However, after reviewing the PC Requirements released by Chief I am going to need to upgrade my current laptop. I was curious if any of you guys are using laptops to work with Chief? If so could you please tell me what your recommendations are? I am currently looking at the Dell Latitude, HP Elitebook, and the Lenovo ThinkPad. Thanks in advance for the time and help.

Hello everyone, I know that this question has been abused several times over throughout many designer discussion boards. However, I have not been able to find a discussion on this topic that is up to date. Many of the discussions I have found are relating to Chief X3 and SoftPlan v14. I have been an AutoCAD Architectural & Revit user for years. I am not doing many large commercial projects anymore so I am going to scale my software back since I am primarily just doing residential designs at this point. I have been doing a lot of research on Chief and SoftPlan since these are the best residential design software platforms available. There has been quite a few changes with each software since X3 and v14. I was wondering if anyone could give me an accurate review of these two software platforms on a more relevant release? I will be purchasing one of these two programs this year. I have also downloaded both demos from Chief and SoftPlan. They are nice demos, but demos is all they are. I cannot do real world designs, or create construction drawings with demos. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!