Epson's Peanuts laptop surfaces just in time

Really, what would the week before the new year be without a half-hour of Charlie Brown in all of its grainy glory? Right on cue, Epson has unveiled a Peanuts-themed laptop that should fit the bill if you weren't really feelin' its Hello Kitty variants. The machine checks in with a 15-inch display, a 1.73GHz Intel Celeron M430 processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, an 80GB hard drive, four USB ports and a DVD combo drive. As if those partial specs weren't enough to satisfy, you can also count on a number of Snoopy themes being bundled in to clog up your system resources. 'Course, you'll be paying an absolutely insane amount for the privilege of owning one -- and just think, your $2,799.99 still can't get it here any quicker than January.

[Via ChipChick]

[David Clark @ Dec 21st 2007 4:00PM]

Wow. I think lighting the money on fire might be a more cost efficient use of $2799

[James @ Dec 22nd 2007 1:27AM]

Espon makes computers?
I have an Espon printer. O.o
It's UBER old.

[blade417 @ Dec 21st 2007 4:01PM]

Man, I love peanuts, brings back memories when I was learning to read.

[Aashish Jain @ Dec 21st 2007 4:11PM]

Are there really people out there, that would drop so much money on something like this?

[RyanTV @ Dec 21st 2007 4:19PM]

the unfortunate truth is... yes. there really are people that moronic.

[STrRedWolf @ Dec 21st 2007 4:20PM]

Hmmm... $2500...

$500 of that is the actual laptop and OS. Gee, Charles is surely turning in his grave.

[tricky @ Dec 21st 2007 4:31PM]

Reminds me of the Family Guy view on grown up Peanuts, on which Charlie Brown is a crack head... which matches this article, selling overpriced laptops for drugs. lol.

[coffee @ Dec 21st 2007 4:34PM]

or you could download some Snoopy themes, and buy a Peanuts sticker for $3.00

[silverblackvoid @ Dec 21st 2007 4:39PM]

the laptop's value is peanuts. pun intended.

[Natedog @ Dec 21st 2007 4:41PM]

"I got a Celeron."

"I got a rock."

[huh @ Dec 21st 2007 4:52PM]

This is for the Japanese market, Epson is more common there and they are crazy about Peanuts, probably the price tag is "lost in translation."

[theletterj @ Dec 21st 2007 4:57PM]

Good Grief...

[iptydafu @ Dec 21st 2007 5:33PM]

dang, horrendous

[Mitch @ Dec 21st 2007 5:35PM]

Jeezus...they must be on crack.

Like Lucy pulling a football away from Chuck, they just pulled this laptop back OUT of plans for a surprise for my 5 year old. I read what it was, I read what it had, I figured 5, maybe 600 bucks...but for that price, the thing had better include a pinch of Charles Schultz's ashes.

[supermeerkat @ Dec 21st 2007 7:14PM]

in the lower left corner of the Peanut's gang picture there is a fat looking snoopy to the left of Snoopy. Anyone know who that character is?

[Josh @ Dec 21st 2007 7:54PM]

That's Snoopy's cousin or brother or something. And he isn't too the left of snoopy, he's to the left of another cousin/brother.

[Tim @ Dec 21st 2007 11:07PM]

His name is Olaf, and Snoopy's brother Andy is to his right.

[supermeerkat @ Dec 22nd 2007 3:33AM]

Cheers fellas.

[Austin @ Dec 21st 2007 8:54PM]

Good. Grief.

[3rdsun @ Dec 21st 2007 9:16PM]

Paying peanuts for peanuts, what has the world gone to

[jd @ Dec 22nd 2007 12:55AM]

thats $1999 too much.

[Randomness @ Dec 22nd 2007 2:50AM]

Eee PC White + Snoopy theme + decals/airbrush/vinyl applique? What would be best to put the pictures on?

[Pamela @ Dec 22nd 2007 12:11PM]

Pack of Peanuts stickers: $3
Old Hand-me-down free Laptop: FREE
Sticking my own stickers on a laptop instead of paying someone else
$2,800 to do it for me: PRICELESS...and Frugal!

[Alucard.G @ Dec 23rd 2007 1:42AM]

配置价格太不厚道了。。。