PowerBook G3 - The G3 in Popular Culture

The G3 in Popular Culture

• In the film Legally Blonde, Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is in the library and carries a PowerBook G3 Box.
• Meg Ryan used the "Kanga" model in the film You've Got Mail (1998).
• The PowerBook G3 was featured prominently on the hit series Sex and the City, where it was used by Carrie Bradshaw. The show's pilot first ran in June 1998, and in the episode "My Motherboard, My Self", Carrie identifies her PowerBook as her "98 laptop", but for most of the run a Lombard or Pismo was used, identifiable by the white Apple logo at the top of the screen.
• In the fifth season of the sitcom NewsRadio, all computers on the show were replaced with Wallstreet PowerBook G3s, except for Beth's computer which was replaced with an iMac. The only exception is the episode "Meet Max Louis", in which Joe's faulty computer network causes Y2K to come two years early and many laptops (all early 1990s PCs) explode.
• In earlier episodes of the TV drama series Charmed, Phoebe Halliwell is shown using a PowerBook G3. Similarly, in the first and second seasons of the NBC political drama The West Wing, the PowerBook G3 could be seen atop White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler's desk.
• The G3 has also been featured in the film What Women Want (2000) as Nick Marshall's (Mel Gibson) personal laptop. Additionally, it was seen in the film Duplex (2003) as the laptop Alex Rose (Ben Stiller) used to write his novel. In the sequel Mission Impossible 2 (2000), Anthony Hopkins shows Ethan his mission on a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. It also appeared briefly in the film House on Haunted Hill (1999) as the computer Price wrote the fake guest list on.
• In the film Disney's The Kid (2000), Bruce Willis's character has a Powerbook G3 Pismo when he is on the plane.
• In the pilot episode of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Marshall can be seen using either a Lombard or Pismo.
• It was also used on many episodes of the children's sitcom That's So Raven
• A G3 PowerBook (Lombard or Pismo) can be seen in some episodes of Stargate SG-1 in use by General Hammond, as well as a number of SGC personnel (including Samantha Carter). In almost every case, the Apple logo on the computer's screen lid is covered by a black patch, and no shots of the logos or names are ever shown. However, the G3 Bronze series case design is highly distinctive.
• A G3 PowerBook is shown on Chandler Bing's desk in the sitcom Friends. Season 7, Episode, "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding"
• In the film Night at the Museum (2006), Larry Daley uses a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet that ran Linux or Windows to learn more about history.
• Langly is often seen using a Powerbook G3 in The Lone Gunmen series.
• In the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray is seen several times using a PowerBook G3 in his living room.
• In the sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), a woman at Austin's photo shoot is using a Powerbook G3 Lombard.
• In The Core at the end of the film The 'Rat' is using a Powerbook G3 to hack other people's laptops.
• In the (2004) film Saw when Dr. Lawrence Gordon is in his house he uses a Powerbook G3. There is no Apple logo on the front but viewers can tell that it is a Powerbook G3 from its shape.