2.16GHz C2D MacBook (White) + 7200.2 Seagate Momentus SATA = O.K.?

Does anyone know if a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 SATA 2.5" HDD is OK to run in the newer Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz MacBooks? I don't see any 7200rpm drives listed as available Apple upgrades for any of the MacBooks other than the MacBook Pro series. I'm thinking this is probably do to a cost reduction value. Does anyone know if there are any technical issues which would prevent one from installing a 7200rpm SATA HDD in the current shipping version of the MacBook? I have had very solid performance increases running this HDD setup in my Intel Mac Mini and would like to do the same thing to my new MacBook unless it is somehow "bad" for the system. Thanks all!
-Dave/XJ

It probably isn't listed yet because the drive probably wasn't available when the specs were written. The drives are coming out faster than anyone can keep up with.
That drive should work ok. I saw it for sell at quite a few vendors for MacBook hard drives.

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