Mixing RAM types on my new MacBook Pro

Hello all,
Just purchased a week 44 Mac Book Pro (Core Duo Only), and so far, everything is good, no cpu whine, no screen whine (though I think those issues were solved by this revision).
I wanted to know, is it possible to take the 1GB of the ddr2 pc2-4200 RAM that I have in my Powerbook (bought separately) and put it in the second slot of my Mac Book Pro (Which uses ddr2 pc2-5300)
DDR2 RAM is supposedly backwards compatible, so will the system slow the newer Mac Book Pro ram down to the older RAM's speed, or is doing this a big no no?
Thanks All!

Hi!
The ram from your Powerbook is not compatibale ram with the Macbook Pro. The PB ram is DDR2 PC2-4200 SDRAM, the MBP uses 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. You also want to have matching specs and size for each module, to have best performance.

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