Which Vintage Mac Stars in Online Trading Ad?

Eagle-eyed CoM reader Joaquin Jang spotted what looks like a either a Pismo, the last G3 PowerBook launched in 2000, or its close cousin, the Lombard PowerBook G3 laptop launched a year earlier, in a recent Wells Fargo bank banner.Which Vintage Mac Stars in Online Trading Ad?

He writes, “Imagine my surprise when I went to log in to my bank account at Wells Fargo’s website and found this picture which appears to show my first Mac laptop, the Pismo, it could also be a Lombard which had a similar form factor.
While the Pismo still does some work for me, it’s not my everyday machine since it is nearly ten years old. Yet, it still makes it into a website ad nine years after it was introduced.”

The PowerBook 2000 (FireWire), a.k.a. Pismo, is the Energizer Bunny of Apple notebooks.

The PowerBook 2000 (FireWire), a.k.a. "Pismo", is the Energizer Bunny of Apple notebooks.

So, which one is it?

Many thanks to Joaquin for the tip and screenshots.
CoM readers: if you spot other interesting Macs starring in ads, let us know!

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  • Adam

    Yep.. I see ad’s all the time with Apple products.. many of them years old. They have always been elegant and i’m guessing reshooting get pricey… I know since I’m a photographer.

    Bigger pet peeve is when a furniture store will do an advert and use a tower (old or new) and have a flatscreen monitor – but have NO cables OR keyboard in sight whatsoever!

    -Adam