Updating My Mac Without Using A CD?

I've recently started reusing my Macbook (10.4.11) after breaking another laptop... I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade - and I've read I can upgrade to snow leopard if I increase RAM size then by the CD etc... - but I need to upgrade without the CD. The reason I stopped using my Mac was because the CD disk drive is broken and too expensive to fix. Therefore I was wondering if there is any way to upgrade without using a CD?

You can get a fairly cheap external CD/DVD burner/player at Newegg.com http://www.newegg.com/External-CD-DVD-Blu-Ray-Drives/SubCategory/ID-420?Order=PR ICE
10.6 Snow Leopard is on a DL DVD. The 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD is back in the Apple online store. You can get it for $19.99. You will need to be running 10.6.8 to access the App Store to order Lion or Mountain Lion. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
System Requirements for 10.6:
Mac computer with an Intel processor
1GB of memory
5GB of available disk space
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