Can I loadOSX TO A MACBOOK 13?

My mum wants to use iplayer on her Macbook 13. She was told to increase the RAM by 2Gb. She did that and I have an installation disc for OSX from my imac.
When I load the install DVD or the Application install DVD it says that Snow Leopard cannot be installed on this machine.
Is it my discs that are the problem?
Is it that the machine can't access the 2Gb of new RAM?

Unless it is a retail disk, install disks are machine specific, so - no, you can't use it on another machine.
So even if you buy or have a retail disk, you still need to make sure that her machine is compatible with Snow Leopard. For that, you'd have to furnish all the info: year, model, processor, etc.

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