Another which-ultrabook-buy-post, sorry. Seems to be a fast moving area, so the previous posts seemed too dated to address my questions.

I am looking for a primarily business focussed ultrabook. My ideal specs include a Haswell chip (i5 probably), 13-inch (ish) screen, FHD (1920x1080) minimum resolution, SSD (ideally 256 but would accept 128), and I would never say no to extra RAM. It *must* have a nice keyboard (backlit). I have strong feelings about keyboards. Very strong feelings.

I don't need a touch screen (and have used Windows 8 in a non-touch world and have made my peace with it), but have realised I might need to accept one to get what I want.

Business work will be mostly be Office suite, plus some low-level photoshop/GIMP. So I know I am probably overspeccing, but I will be using this every day and am therefore trying to focus on the things that will make a difference to me. i.e. screen, keyboard and storage. I'd rather spend a little more and be happy with it, than regret every day that I didn't pay just an extra few hundred for feature X (as I do on the current notebook).

Finally, ideally I'd like it from a more reputable supplier. Given the business focus, I don't want to be without it for weeks arguing with someone over who will fix it.

Budget is around $2,000.

I didn't think this would be as hard as it has been. I've looked at Lenovos (x240, T440 and X1 ranges), but the price racks up by the time I manage to get all the specs I want. The Yoga Pro 2 looks awesome, but isn't here yet (if it ever will arrive). Dell has burnt me before so I'm not that keen, and again I can't really get everything I want at my price point. I've read good reviews about the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus, but you can't seem to get the plus model here, just the lite one (and the dopey name doesn't do it any favours. I assumed it was 9 inches for ages). HP EliteBooks are really nice, but seem hugely expensive for what you get.

I thought the Sony Vaio Pro was looking good, even though it only has 128GB and 4GB RAM. It is super light and portable, but I am not taken with the keyboard (flex and lack of key travel), though still very much an option. I'm also a little leery that Sony has sold Vaio and won't be making any new ones, so ongoing support is a query.

I was quite taken by the new Surface Pro 3 specs. The midrange i5/256GB model has almost everything I want around my price point. The downsides are I am not sure I can wait until August, and I am not sure that the keyboard cover will be quite everything I want it to be (I've only tried a type cover on the 10 inch model, and the difference between that and a full-size keyboard on a 13 inch notebook is enough that I notice it). Incidentally, most of the reviews I have read so far on the Surface Pro 3 go on about how expensive it is for what you get, but in NZD at least it struck me as being good value - or am I nuts?

So I am thinking that maybe I have to adjust my budget to get everything I want/lower my expectations. But then I looked at Macs. DSE and JBHifi have a 10% special this weekend, so I can get a MacBook Pro Retina Display with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, plus everything else I want for a tick under $1900. It seems ridiculous to buy a Mac that I will in all likelihood install Windows on (we have another Mac at home, and the muscle memory windows shortcuts are just too much to overcome). What happened to Apple tax? Why aren't there Windows notebooks with similar specs?

Any other suggestions for what I should be looking at?