I had a Centris 610 with an ITAR restricted motherboard. Even the people at the Apple store were jealous. The Centris 650 could run LabVIEW, but the stock 610 c

I had a Centris 610 with an ITAR restricted motherboard. Even the people at the Apple store were jealous. The Centris 650 could run LabVIEW, but the stock 610 could not as it emulated certain instructions which LabVIEW relied on. Apple sold me the 610 with the claim that it would run any software the 650 would (within reason of course). I couldn't program on the 650 because it was in a hot room and I wasn't allowed to spend a lot of time in there. After much arguing they agreed to "fix" the 610. It took six weeks. To get it back I had to sign a document attesting I was a US citizen. If you ask me LabVIEW was broken, but whatever. It's not just a Mac thing. My vague recollection is that once upon a time the Playstation ran on defective chips which couldn't be manufactured in certain countries. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center made what amounted to a jailbreak so you could use the Playstation as a development platform.