Apple made an advertisement about the PowerMac G4 as a "supercomputer" because of onerous export controls related to encryption way back. It's more cheeky, I think, than serious. But then again, I haven't looked into it beyond just remembering that it happened.
When you go back a few decades, "supercomputer" level performance doesn't seem all that impressive now.
A Raspberry Pi outperforms a Cray-1 supercomputer, for instance.
>A Raspberry Pi outperforms a Cray-1 supercomputer, for instance.
In terms of compute power this is true. However in terms of design and aesthetics I still find the Cray much more charming than the Pi (even if you start adding fancy cases and so on).
The French encryption ban was a moronic aberration that just lasted a few years. Hopefully just like this UK regulation.
It wasn’t relevant to any Apple ads.