I am toying with the idea of getting a new rig and am gathering opinions of the best place to start building. I am a non-gamer & don't run behemoth graphics rendering proggies. I do want to put something together that will do well with Object Desktop & will be able to handle the eventual move to Vista. For now, I'm not interested in peripherals-- just the stuff in the box, please...
-- Would you go AMD or Intel?
-- MoBo suggestions?
-- Vid card?
-- Minimum ram-- I don't want the bare minimum, but something reasonable considering the CPU & MoBo
-- The box itself-- including fans & power supply based on CPU suggestion...
-- Probably will keep current sound card for now, but feel free to recommend in this area.
-- Anything I'm not thinking about at the moment...

Or maybe it would make more sense to get a Notebook/Laptop & wait to upgrade until after the dust settles on Vista?