Hasta La Gadget!

If you’re passing 2401 West Main Street, Alhambra, California anytime today (above), go take a long look, as it will likely be the shortest tenure of any retail store, ever. Why? The latest tenant is called Quo Computer, and today it opens a retail store selling fake Macs.

The founder, Rashantha De Silva, is charmingly optimistic about his suicide mission. Speaking to Cnet News, he said:

It’s exciting. We are trying to stay as close to Apple as we can with our products. We are trying to mimic things as much as we can. I’m hoping that Apple sees the value in what we are doing.

Oh, ho! Da Silva is not quite as naive as he seems, and fully expects to be sued by Apple. Somehow, though, the fact that his company plans to make prettier computers than other hackintosh makers, and will offer customer service “up there with Apple’s” makes Da Silva think that things will be different this time. “[…] we have a different attitude. There are thousands of people in the ‘Hackintosh’ market, but many of them are creating bad products.”

It’s like an article in a trashy women’s magazine: “He beat his last five wives to death, but I can change him.”

So, if you’re in the market for a Mac clone which you will doubtless be coddling with driver updates just to keep it running, head over to the bricks’n’mortar store, which opens today. There will be three models on sale, the Life Q, Pro Q, and Max Q, starting at “under $900″. Da Silva will be the nervous guy constantly glancing over his shoulder.

New Mac clone maker to open retail store in Calif. [Cnet]