Acer has a notebook for just about every purpose. Some are designed for very basic use, others are tailored for specific purposes – like use on the road or gaming – and still others are more inclined towards the average day and the average user. Acer’s Extensa series falls under that last bracket, though these machines are still fairly multi-purpose.

The Acer Extensa EX2510-363X is one of these machines. On the surface it’s just your normal, everyday notebook but it’s also capable of being more than the sum of its parts.

The Extensa EX2510-363X features a typical entry-level Acer display, a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 LCD CineCrystal display. The long and short of it is that you’re going to have decent image reproduction onscreen but it obviously won’t stand up against an HD display.

But the internal components, like the processor, RAM and storage, go a ways towards making up for that. This particular model features either a Core i3 4005U processor or a Core i5 4210U chip, backed by 4GB of DDR3 low voltage system memory. Whichever CPU flavour you pick, the Extensa EX2510-363X comes with 500GB of storage.

Both variants also feature optical drives in the form of a DVD writer, SD card readers, Bluetooth, WiFi (802.11 b/g/n) and one of Acer’s Crystal Eye webcams.

The whole setup is powered by a 6-cell Lithium Ion battery and either option will come standard with Windows 8.1 SL 64-bit pre-installed.

This is the sort of laptop computer that you’d use in and around the home, for surfing the internet, conducting your home tasks and perhaps consuming media. If you’re going for uses that would bang the hardware a bit more, it might be a plan to look a little further up Acer’s ladder. For now, this’ll do just fine.