Lightest slate/netbook that has wired ethernet?

[randombs]

I'm currently repping an EEE PC 900 (900MHz Celeron, 9" Screen, etc etc) but it's a bit bulky and heavy, plus the battery lasts about two hours so I have to take the charger with me.

While laughing at this fake ?100-odd iPad copy called ePad (or aPad, or a host of other names, probably), I suddenly stopped laughing because it has a dongle that you plug in to give you two USB ports and an ethernet port.

I'm tech support/administrator and my work only has wifi in the guest/public areas, not the staff offices where I do most of my work so I need a proper ethernet connection for diagnosing problems and doing other cool stuff.

I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations/ideas about a light machine(<1kg) that has ethernet (either built-in or via a dongle). I'm not worried about speed and was even considering one of those dodgy Disgo Net Browser 3000s but the battery life sucks and they run WinCE(not sure if Linux can be put on them).

Looking at all these slates, I'd happily get one if I could use a USB-ethernet converter with it(assuming such a thing is possible in terms of driver support and whether it has a USB host controller or not). My manager has an iPad but it'd be useless for me to get one of those.

I've been looking at the Elonex eTouch which is a 10" tablet that runs Android, has ethernet built-in(using a dongle), 3 hour battery life and is only 695g. It's a resistive touch screen but that's not really an issue for me. There's also a 7" 395g version but it has no ethernet support from what I can tell.

Just to help, here's what I'm not looking for:

1) A wifi access point, however small. I have a teeny tiny Asus one but it's not really going to work if I have to keep plugging that in every time
2) An iPad
3) Anything over 1kg as I'd just stick with my EEE in that case
4) Any device that doesn't have a physical way to attach an ethernet cable

Cheers for any replies!

[kryss]

Got my Archos 101 yesterday - 500g, 8 hours battery life, Android 2.1, 1x USB but no ethernet.

https://store.archos.com/archos-internet-tablet-p-5005.html

Comes with a mains adapter with a plug for the UK as well.

[jam-tea]

Have you got a budget? There are a few options from Sony which may fit you well, but might cost a bit.

[randombs]

Oops I forgot about budget. I was considering a Vaio P at one point but it might be overkill. I'd say around &#163;300 or so. I'm hoping for something that's so underspecced it just happens to be small and light, as opposed to something that's expensive because it's small and light, like my old Vaio TZ21

[abigsmurf]

You can get a windows atom based netbook with Ethernet for <&#163;200 You'll probably either get linux or windows starter, both of which have full ethernet support.

For &#163;300 you may be able to get a dual core netbook or an Ion one.

Not entirely sure what functionality an Ethernet port gives you on an android pad, isn't really an OS designed around networking.

[randombs]

Although Android itself isn't really designed for networking, based on the apps I have for my iPhone (VNC, terminal, etc), I figured people would do similar things with it. Also, as it's based on Linux, I was hoping certain things would carry over. In terms of Android itself, I'd only need for the device to recognise and use the ethernet port.

I've been researching this USB OTG thingy and it might help me figure some things out. I suppose if a device has USB host capabilities then I imagine someone somewhere will have started working on getting it working with certain USB-ethernet converters...