Is my macbook capable of harboring this RAM?

So I've visited tons of sites with little to no clue on what I should be looking for for RAM upgrades for my macbook. OWC, new egg, and crucial all seem to be good ones... but I don't know which one has the most desirable RAM upgrades. Plus I'm confused by the fact that crucial says my 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 duo macbook can only handle 2 GB of RAM while OWC says it can handle 4 GB. What's going on here? Can I trust OWC? I will definitely shoot for 4 GB from OWC if my macbook can actually take it.
Then again, if it can't take 4 GB RAM from OWC and it lied to me... where should i purchase 2 GB from out of those three options? And what manufacturer should I choose? i know new egg has a mess of different RAM lines.
My respects.

I'd get the RAM from OWC. That's where I'm getting my 4 gigs. (My current measly 1 GB's going to a friend. Make sure you have something to do with yours. OWC'll take them if you can't find anything better.)
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From your manual:
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Now I have been looking to purchase this RAM because it is 1600Mhz instead of 1333Mhz that I currently have. From what I have read it will run at 1600Mhz without a problem. But I'm just double checking to make sure this would be good RAM to upgrade to, I am looking for as high quality RAM as I can get.
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Hey guys,
Hopefully this will help. With a late 2011 17".
THERE IS NO PROBLEM, AT ALL, RUNNING 1600 SPEED RAM.
(1) I have a very late 17" macbook Pro. (It is actually the somewhat rare 2.5 quad model.) One of the very last ones made.
(2) It comes with 1333 ram
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(4) IT IS ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN, THAT, THE MACHINE RUNS MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH FASTER when you have 1600 speed ram.
(Indeed, it runs 1600 / 1333 = 1.20x faster on all memory operations - it's just that simple and obvious. It's strange that some are suggesting there will be "no difference" etc. The difference is VERY SUBSTANTIAL -- like 20%)
I did A NUMBER OF TESTS back-and-fore swapping the slow and fast ram.
and it is very, very obvious, the speed difference.
Most operations on computers are just memory bound - everything from startup to rendering and the like is quicker - obviously and clearly quicker - with faster ram.
(5) I have had utterly no problems running the faster ram. It reports and runs the ram utterly normally, no problem.
(6) These machines cost thousands, and ram cost a few dollars - there seems very little reason you wouldn't do this.
(7) I do have one of the very last 17" mbp. (It was "old new stock" - I bought it unused in March 2013.) So, it's possible that OLDER 17" mbp will not run 1600 speed RAM. But, I mean it costs like $100 to try, on a fantastic machine worth $1000s, so it's a huge win at low cost if it works.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PS9UKW?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp =1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001PS9UKW
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