Lower Newegg type price is not gonna happen for a good long while. It's only recently that SATA optical drives were available from other than Plextor. The HP is $104. after rebate +s/h from their store now. HP doesn't actually manufacture any optical drives (I'm pretty sure they have always been rebadges) - interesting to find out who makes that for them as you could probably find it cheaper w/o HP's cut of the money.
. In any case, I wouldn't buy either until they've gone thru the gauntlet of the techie site reviews. I'd buy a known good PATA burner (like the Samsung 183M - around $33. at Newegg w/ free shipping this week - get the Nero 7 Essentials CD from computersworth.com - the drive usually comes with Nero 6.x on the Samsung CD which you might want to use if your PC is a bit long in the tooth) and add an IDE to SATA adapter to it. Then you're all set for much less money.
.bh.