New airport extreme card in 2007 mac pro?

I have a 2.66 mac pro which i purchased in september 2007. I talked to one lady at the mac store in Roseville, MN and she said I needed the old airport card, which she told me is model # MA688Z/A. is this true? or can i use the newer airport extreme card? the old card is hard to find and if i can use the newer card, model # M8881LL/A, that would make my life so much easier. Please advise.

I've talked to a few more people from different mac stores, and they said that the first person i talked to basically didn't know what they were talking about. they said that the new mac pro and old mac pro both take the same airport card, model MB363Z/A. sorry for all the run-around. can anybody confirm or dis-confirm this info?

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