Apple can't count. DEC beat them by almost 3 years.
http://www.dec.com/hpc/news/1gigaflop.html
PITTSBURGH, November 1996 - At the Supercomputing '96
Conference, DIGITAL demonstrated the first uniprocessor
desktop workstation that can achieve 1 Gigaflop performance.
The system, a current production model DIGITAL AlphaStation
500/500 running DIGITAL UNIX 4.0, achieved a maximum rate of
1.02 Gigaflops while running a polynomial evaluation program
compiled with the DIGITAL Fortran 90 compiler, without any
special optimizing directives.
Cheers,
Wayne
http://www-oss.fnal.gov/~baisley