Mistake to have pulled HD from Mini and put it in Macbook?

The Macbook hard drive died from a fall, and the Mini's logic board died. So I opened the Mini, took out the hard drive, and put it in the Macbook. It seems to have "worked" okay, but now I've installed VMware Fusion, and am trying to run XP, and it's really, really sluggish.
The Mini (the machine the HD came out of) was a 1.83GHz Core Duo from late 2006 (I believe); had 2gb of ram. The Macbook (the machine the HD was put into) is a 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo with 1gb of ram.
So, should I have backed up the Mini hard drive (which I've done), and reformatted and done a reinstall on the HD of OS X, etc? Or is just moving the drive from one Mac to another okay to have done?
Thanks.

As has been mentioned, you really can't just swap the drives without the potential of some driver/configuration related issues. 1GB is also really not enough for running virtual machines. OS X can use nearly that much RAM all on it's own without running any applications... once you start running even minor apps, you'll start to experience slow downs (namely as a result of all the extra work your hard drive will have to do as a result of disk swapping). On top of that, consider that the virtual machine file is one single file and results in quite a bit of disk activity when in use and XP also has a swap file (which it writes to the virtual image)... so you have both OS X and Windows fighting for hard drive access and both reading and writing to the drive almost continuously. The result is a super slow system. As has been suggested, putting more RAM in your machine should help significantly. The good news is that you should be able to swap the RAM from your Mini into your MacBook without a problem.

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