As you enter his bright and warm office at KGH, one cannot help noticing an Aluminum iMac with complementing wireless keyboard and mouse. And behind the door sit his secretaries, one with Polycarbonate iMac and the other with MacBook Pro. “You can say I’m an Apple freak,” says he.[break]
“I like Apple computers mostly because they are virus-free. Even though you pay the price for the clean software devices, it makes life much easier, without the hassles of virus and its antidote,” he says.
He remembers that his first Apple product was an iPod back in 1997. “I’ve always felt that Apple products perfectly fit in my hand and lifestyle. And they never fail to make a bold statement. You always feel like appreciating the product,” Sakya says as he looks at his iPhone 4 adoringly.
He adds that his iPad 2 has been mostly abused by his kids. “I just get to use it at night to go through some news and feeds.”
He believes that it is very fortunate to have lived in the generation when technology evolved so rapidly. However, after the death of Steve Jobs, he feels that his loyalty to Apple has lessened. “But I’m still looking forward to iPhone 5,” he says.
But he also points out that too much dependence on technology sometimes can be harmful. He got the sour taste after he lost his MacBook Pro a few months back.
“My laptop was not only loaded with business information but it had so much of my personal stuffs, including family photographs for a decade,” sighs Sakya. “I feel like I’ve lost my son’s childhood.”
And the other gadget he is very passionate about is his camera. “Photography reflects what’s inside me,” says the proud owner of a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
He also has five lenses in his camera bag, and the recent he bought was an Ef 8-15 Fisheye lens. But it is the tele lens that he never forgets to carry anywhere he goes due to his ardor to wildlife photography.
“Photography came to me as a default,” he says. While taking pictures of the family’s hotels, he got drawn to wildlife photography, and it has been more than five years he has been into his hobby. “Most of the photographs of both our hotels and the wildlife that you see in the brochures of KGH are mine,” says Sakya with a confident smile. “The other gadgets that I use are for work or business, but I use my camera to get away from all the workload and stress.”
Aluminum iMac
• A mid-2007 model of Apple’s iconic desktop’s switch to Intel processors.
• It has aluminum, glass and plastic enclosure with glossy glass-covered widescreen.
• It has been tested for intense heat and water exposure.
• 8x double-layer SuperDrive
Ipad 2
• Dual-core A5 chips.
• With up to nine times the graphics performance, game play on iPad is even smoother and more realistic.
• iPad Smart Cover.
• LED backlighting makes everything you see remarkably crisp, vivid, and bright.
• 9.7 inches of high-resolution photos, movies, web pages, books, and more.
Apple Time Capsule
• A wireless network-attached storage device combined with a wireless residential gateway router.
• The device includes a full AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n wireless, an Ethernet WAN port, three Ethernet LAN ports, and one USB port.
• Built-in hard drive (2TB or 3TB).
• It has the ability to back up a system and files wirelessly and automatically.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
• A 21.1-megapixel full-frame CMOS digital single-lens reflex camera.
• It has even has a movie recording with full HD at 1920 × 1080 and SDTV at 640 × 480 resolution.
• It bears a monaural microphone for audio during video recording, speaker for playback and microphone jack for external stereo microphone.
• The Li-Ion battery for the camera has 1,800mAh capacity. Each battery contains a microchip with a unique identifier for reporting charge status and battery health for display on the camera.
iPhone 4
• The Retina display on iPhone 4 is the sharpest, most vibrant, highest-resolution phone screen ever, with four times the pixel count of previous iPhone models.
• 5-megapixel camera.
• HD video recording and editing with iMovie.
• Multitasking through iOS 4.
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