Thanks, but that wouldn't work here with tax authorities. Tax as still applied anyway.
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Yes, that is correct.
Anyway, I am not trying to avoid taxation at this point. I wish I could. But, as you may wonder, taxes here are so high that everybody wants to find a way not to pay them, and the government has developed a strong system not to allow it. There is no way out, unless I buy it from smugglers (which charge a hefty premium over the U.S. price) or if I buy it directly in the States myself and bring to Brazil without being noticed by the customs office. So, I am already resigned that I will have to pay an obscene price for a laptop, as I've done in the past.
Given that I'm buying a very expensive machine, at least I would like to know whether it fits my needs or if I should look elsewhere, or even wait for Haswell to be released.
Haswell might be ready in June ... but when the mobile chips-sets will go into production know one knows..
I was also on the wire .. but based on the comparison with a M$ only box I decided to go for it .. also simple add on would be a office365 subscription gives you the full Office suite on both win$ and OSX.. always up to-date and on up to 5 devices...
all your other needs are way doable on Parallels or Fusion .. also your actual footprint (Disk usage will be less) as you can configure how much ram you show to windows.. under bootcamp it uses all memory so your Hibernation file will be 8 GB and add another up to 8 GB for VM ... and well you gust lost 8-16GB drive space for nothing .... so as you are already comfortable under OSX .. just use Parallels and a VM if you don't like the MacOffice 2011 version ... Lync and all the other M$ add ons are also available on OSX
So based on your ability to Vist the US in June .. looks like a MacBook with SB is in your future ... if you were only going there in Sept/ Oct i would suggest get the has well...
I am sure there will be no remorse .. especially saving $1500