The weak equivalences in the model structure that $* \downarrow \mathbf{Top}$ inherits formally are pointed maps $f: X\to Y$ that are unpointed homotopy equivalences; but in his discussion of the pointed case, Strøm takes $\mathbf{Top}_*$ to have pointed homotopy equivalences as weak equivalences.
Jeff Strom
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