If the rumor sites are to be believed, we are less than a week away from witnessing the first Apple products with built-in Blu-ray drives, a long-awaited feature that will officially begin the demise of the aging SuperDrive. With this weekend’s announcement that Warner Brothers would be abandoning HD DVD beginning in May (and Apple’s position on the Blu-ray consortium’s Board of Directors), it certainly seems probable that a portion of Steve Jobs’ Mac Expo keynote will be devoted to a brand new high definition drive. But for those of us unwilling to wait (or plunk down our hard-earned money on a new Mac or just for Blu-ray support), there are a few options already on the market:

 RAM has always been one of Apple’s Achilles heels. In an effort to keep price points lower, stock machines come to you woefully under-powered in the memory department. New MacBooks ship with a now-paltry 1 GB of RAM. In truth, that’s certainly enough to get you up and running, but even Apple seems to realize that these days, it takes at least twice that to pump out a satisfying OS X experience.

When it comes to music, the iPod is the greatest thing since amps that go to 11. Audiobooks, on the other hand, are a completely different beast. While audiobook downloads from the iTunes Store are as simple as a few clicks, getting your existing books from CD, or audiobooks from other stores like eMusic or the free Librivox into your iPod's Audiobooks playlist can be a chore.

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