My sons is about 412mb and we wants to upgrade to 2gb. PC World seem to sell a generic 2gb laptop RAM.
Installation looks very straightforward, are there any problems I might encounter?

Obviously ham fisted as you can see, consider it in the other forum.

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It’s usually very easy to do. There are two things to consider. Make sure you buy the right kind of chip (it will be something like DDR xxx Mhz), google for the model of laptop or look on the chip that’s in there already. Secondly, some laptops can only recognize a certain amount of RAM, so it may be that if you buy a 2GB chip, you will only get 1GB of RAM out of it. Again, if you can find a spec sheet for the laptop online it should tell you what the max RAM is.

Aparently I need to get rid of any static, how.

another vote for crucial here

To get rid of static, best way is to wear an anti-static strap (wee wrist band that plugs into a mains outlet!), but you can do it almost as well by grabbing something metal that’s earthed. Taps would do the job.

Oh aye, and yet another vote for Crucial.