Can I use memory from my old G4 laptop in a new iMac?

My old PowerBook G4 (PowerPC) just died and I know that I have some extra RAM installed in it that I can remove. Last year, I bought an iMac and would love to be able to use my old RAM in my iMac - will the Intel iMac be able to support my old PowerPC RAM that was in my laptop? What about my MacPro at work running Mac OSX 10.7.4?
I'm just not sure if the new hardware in the iMac/MacPro will be compatible with the older hardware from my PPC.

You can go to http://www.everymac.com and look up the memory in the old Mac and the new and compare, but the answer is going to be no, the older memory will not be compatible with the new iMac. Different modules, chips, speed, etc.

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Abarbour wrote:
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