RAM from Powerbook to iMac?

Hey everyone.
A couple of months ago my Powerbook got so hot that some parts of the metal to the screen got soft and so when I turned down the screen it cracked. And so the wires were free and the screen did not last long. But Im not here to complain about the cooling ability of Powerbooks, because now I have gotten a new computer, an iMac.
And I was just wondering if I can take memory from the Powerbook (and other stuff that might be useful too) and put it in my iMac?

You can certainly sell parts so that others can use them to repair their PowerBooks, but the display, memory, hard drive, AirPort card, keyboard keys, etc. will not transfer into an Intel-based iMac, or even into a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Size, types, speeds are different.
There are usually numerous buyers looking for distressed, damaged or non-working Macs of all kinds. While some are looking for certain parts, repair shops like to buy the whole unit and disassemble it themselves to be certain there's no damage done in that process. They put the parts that aren't immediately needed on their shelves for future use.
edit- You could use the hard drive in an external case with your new iMac, but the small size of notebook hard drives makes them more valuable as replacment parts, and less valuable as supplementary storage.
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