The Samsung NC10 uses a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor running at FSB frequency of 533 MHz, and includes 1 GB of DDR2 800/6400 memory as standard.

[10] Sometimes the main board develops bad through holes which can cause very strange symptoms as mentioned earlier, a pin from old AMD laptop CPU such as Sempron can be used as well.

It is believed that the failure is caused by deterioration in the memory chips used for serial presence detect and BIOS failures though rare do sometimes cause "black screen" similar to the early Aspire One units which can be recoverable using crisis boot disk and Alt Esc method.

Due to the way these are made it is sometimes feasible to make a new module using heatshrink, the old salvaged battery cables with nickel tags and some Z axis screen repair tape with blue cure nail varnish as an anti-vibration method if original batteries can't be shipped.

Linux (e.g. Ubuntu Netbook Edition,[12] Xubuntu, Lubuntu, or Debian[13]) runs well with the stock 1GB of RAM.

This combination of installing Apple's operating system on non-Apple hardware is often referred to as a "hackintosh" computer.

The configurations may differ in the lack of Bluetooth, e.g. in Spanish markets[citation needed] and some models in German markets, the fitting of a UMTS/HSDPA module, a weaker battery,[14] or a stronger battery and a slightly bigger but non-multitouch touchpad as "special edition", available in the US.