Swapping MBP hard drive between i7 and core 2 duo (10.7.2)

Hi there. I'm looking for opinions, I have an older 17" MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo, Mid 2009) and a newer 15" MacBook Pro (i7, early 2011) both of which are running Lion (10.7.2).  The older laptop has a new 7200RPM drive and the new laptop has a standard 5400RPM drive.  I'm desiring to swap the drives while leaving them intact with their existing OS installs.  Does anyone anticipate that there will be issues booting the drives after the swap, specifically because of the difference in processors, memory, video, etc?
Thoughts? Opinions? No brainer? Not going to work?  I just don't want to go through the hassle if someone out there has already tried it and ended up having to re-install from scratch.
Thanks for your help.
Bryan

Marrcus wrote:
Bryan,
a)
irrespective, Yes, the 7200 drive will make a noticeable difference, noticeablly faster.
At best it will be 30% faster, normally less than 15%, if the drive sizes are not the same it may not be faster at all.
b)
Unfortunately as I experienced, you cannot simply swap a core2duo running drive to an i7 machine. It will not work. Too may differenced for it to boot or be easily corrected. It is a real pain unfortunately, I spent a good amount of time trying different things.
Maybe, maybe not, I boot an i7 iMac with an external disc that came from a Core@ machine and it works fine, as it is such a simple thing to test I believe the OP should try.

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