Adding DDR3 RAM without voiding?

I have a Macbook running OSX 10.6.4 - 2.26 GHz Intel Core Duo Processor and am wondering if I have the ability to add 2GB of DDR3 RAM without voiding my warranty?

Lol, I play Karos, Darkfall, Tera-Online, Program in C/C++, Python, Perl; own a proxy supplier and am an admin of a VPS hosting company haha. I need as much RAM as I can get. But this is going to be my secondary machine next year. I'll probably just purchase 2GB sticks and settle with 4GB. 8 would be overkill. I'm usually on fedora or gentoo when I'm on here anyway.. or sometimes booting to bt4 for some quick security checking.
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My ibook has 512MB's of RAM. I am happy with this.
However since next year I plan to return to school to
get a Masters in Ministry, I may need more RAM. From
2001-2005 while I working on my undergrad I used a
Performa 6360 which had 136MB's of RAM + RAM Doubler.
I was able to run some 20 apps at one time (or more)
without a major slowdown. I cannot do this with
Tiger, and since I plan to get the OSX version of
Dave to access other PC's on the network (since
whatever is built int OSX pales in comparison to
Dave). On my Performa 6360 Dave was a necessity,
since the campus dumped using Macs in 2002. I
remember my 1st year (2001-2002) I could access a
number of Macs on the Appletalk network at the time.
But after the Fall 2002 semester the mac got dumped.
Some students still used Macs, but fewer and fewer
used them in the 2003-2005 years.
So my question is. Will maxing out my ibook to a gig
of RAM although me to run some 20-30m apps at one
time (like I could on the Performa) or was OSX Tiger
just not designed for this?
OSX Tiger is much better than OS 9.1, but not in all
areas as OS 9.x and before do have their advantages
over Tiger.
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