Can I use a PC drive to upgrade my macbook pro

My CD/DVD drive on the macbook pro is dead.  I want to upgrade to 10.6.  Can I use my shared CD from my PC (win7) to install 10.6 on the MBP?

All a touchscreen is going to do is replace your mouse or trackpad, you can't use two hands at once to gain any speed advantage organizing photo's.
Also it would have to be a pretty big touch screen, place your two hands over a 17" screen and most of the screen is blocked.
If you need something like that, talk to Microsoft, they have a "Big @ss table" that does that.
Gives me a backache just looking at those people
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/microsoft-surface-one-day-your-computer-will- be-a-big-***-table/

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