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Originally Posted by Valloric
SSE2 was introduced to Intel CPU's in 2001, and to AMD's CPU's in 2003. Your figure of 2006 is off the mark.
Bottom line, this is such an extremely rare issue that so far, there has been little reason to explicitly state it in the install docs. But I agree, it should be there just in case.
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Yes you're right: AMD introduced SSE2 in 2003. But the last AMD Athlon-XP
without SSE2 (socket 'A' / socket 462) was manufactured in July 2005...
BTW: If you check Google's 'chromium browser' bugtracker, this issue is not so extremely rare (at least for chromium):
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9007
Anyway: I don't want to convince you to support old hardware, it's your decision. But if you can give a warning, it would be helpful for users like me (those who are using old hardware for any reason)...