I don’t know why I keep doing this, but here’s a roundup of current tech deals that seem enticing to me:

• HP tx2z laptop, $650. 12.1″ LED-backlit screen (multi-touch), a Turion X2 processor (AMD dual-core), a 320GB disk and Radeon HD3200 video card, webcam, fingerprint reader, and a DeskJet printer. Here’s the link at HP, which doesn’t mention how you can save several hundred dollars.
• Hitachi SATA 2.5″ notebook drive, 100GB 7200RPM with a 16MB cache. $39.99 at NewEgg.
• Acer X203Wbd, 20″ LCD at 1680×1050, $139.99 at NewEgg. Fairly good reviews, too.
• Linksys WRT54GL router, the one that runs Linux so well, $60 at NewEgg.
• Toshiba laptop, dual-core Intel, 15.4″ (with a crappy 1280×800 resolution), 3GB RAM, 250GB (crappy 5400rpm) disk, Vista Home Premium, and a “SuperMulti” DVD drive, $499.99 at NewEgg.
• USB-to-IDE/SATA adapter, $25 at NewEgg. Very handy. I guess it doesn’t support SATAII, but it’ll do SATAI and 2.5/3.5″ IDE, great for reading data off of old hard drives. (Or for people who want a backup hard drive but are too lazy to buy one in a case with a USB cord.) It includes a power supply so you can power the drives. Some people seem to be confused or have trouble, though I have not.