Apple made marketing gold from the Power Mac G4 'supercomputer' export ban in 1999 — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launched and became the first PC to be classed as a weapon

Apple leveraged 1999 Power Mac G4 export ban as marketing advantage.

“The new G4 was capable of ‘over 1 billion calculations per second’ and was three times as fast as Intel’s Pentium III at the same…”