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Sorry, no. (Or are you joking?)
Same number of contacts, but different notch locations. Forcing a DDR3 DIMM into a DDR2 slot would cause serious damage.
The motherboards that can use either have separate slots for the different types. They can't be mixed. You must use one or the other.
The chipset in your laptop can, in principle, support either DDR2 or DDR3. That appears to be what Hwinfo detected.
Your laptop was built with DDR2 slots, though. You can't use DDR3.
No great loss. I wouldn't be surprised if the BIOS settings in the laptop are too limited to allow you to take advantage of high-performance DDR2, if it even exists in SODIMM form.
An I the only one that thought of DanceDanceRevolution3 when the title is read?