New SODIMM in an older machine?

June 2, 2006 3:33 PM

Can I take the 512 meg SODIMM from a MacBook Pro (a PC2-5300 DDR2 chip, according to the MacTracker program), and put it in a 17" iMac G4, which wants PC2100? What are the rules on this kind of backwards compatability?
posted by Steve3 to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

PC2100 is DDR... DDR and DDR2 are not compatible. It won't even fit.
posted by knave at 4:00 PM on June 2, 2006

mmm. fire....
posted by tiamat at 4:22 PM on June 2, 2006

Response by poster: Ah. Since they were both 200 pins, I thought there might be a chance.... so much for that money saving idea.
posted by Steve3 at 5:45 PM on June 2, 2006