New MacBook and Old Hard Drive

I had a MacBook 2 and I have now bought a new MacBook 4.
As I sold my old one instead of using transfer assistant I have simply swapped the hard drives.
Everything seems to be fine except Time Machine won't recognize the old backups because the MAC address has changed. I am not bothered about that so I just created a fresh new full back up
I am wondering if there are other issues that I am not aware of?
My old Mac is doing fine with the new owner with no issues at all.

In my Mac and Windows experience: if you're within the same processor family AND same motherboard "chipset," then your OS install functions OK when you swap boot drives.
However, if your hardware changed between Core Duo/Core2 Duo processor families, or between GMA950/1300 chipsets, do not be complacent; re-install MacOS. Your Macbook may have subtle but critical issues eventually, such as bad drive reads/writes from the differences in the hd controllers.
Message was edited by: ricercar
Upon re-reading, I see you apparently installed a Leopard upgrade after the boot drive swap. This theoretically should avert any CPU/Chipset problems. In this case, I'd probably let things slide unless this was my only machine or my main production machine, in which case I'd re-install MacOS.

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