I just upgraded the RAM in a 2006 Macbook Pro with the Merom Chipset - the system identifier for this mac is MacBookPro2,2 ( About this Mac ->More Info->System Report).
The ram it comes with is DDR2 667 Mhz 5300 SO-DIMM - this ram is hard to come by these days and I heard conflicting reports about whether higher speed RAM would work. Apparently the later model Penryn chipsets machines would not downclock the RAM and fail to to boot.
Anyway, my local computer store had some Patriot 800Mhz RAM for much cheaper than the Mac spec RAM could be had on ebay, so I took a chance and bought some.
After a false start because I didn't seat the RAM properly, I can report that 800 Mhz RAM works on my MacBookPro2,2 just fine!
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