The best "design guide" would be to see if the components you are looking at
have Vista compatible drivers available. If so, that's 2/3 of your worries
taken care of; the other 1/3 is "Was the manufacturer testing these drivers
prior to release or were they playing with DreamScene?" :-(

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"Avarice" wrote in message
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My computer is over 4 years old now and I am ready to turn it into a
secondary computer in my home. I currently have Windows Vista Ultimate
installed on it, but because the hardware is somewhat old, I'm not getting
a
very good experience with it. With that said, I'm ready to "go all out"
with
the designing of my new PC. I am looking for different Windows Vista PC
design guides, but was only able to come up with one at
http://techreport.com/etc/2007q1/sys...e/index.x?pg=1

Does anyone have any additional guides or information on how to build a
Windows Vista compatible PC from the ground up (barebones kit is good
too)?
If someone could point me to a reliable manufacturer of Windows Vista PCs,
that would be great too. From what I see now, most manufacturers (even
Dell)
have warnings about driver incompatibilities with Windows Vista and that
is
what worries me.