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shazamablam
Hi,
I've had my Surface Laptop 3 (Intel I5 Core, 8GB Ram, 256GB) for nearly six months now, and I think it's a great laptop in all but one respect - its battery life. From the start, it never lived up to its marketing promise of 11.5 hours (not even close, even though I never really expected it to reach that max range - it's only ever really managed a bit over six hours, with my battery report estimating it's first entry months ago at 6:50 hours), but it's steadily gotten a lot worse. These last couple of weeks, I've been lucky to get 4 hours out of it, which is far below what I need and use it for. My latest battery report for estimated battery life shows this:
Needless to say, that one 102 hour blip on the 5th of October is strange, but I don't know if it's connected to the issues I'm having, since the problem dates to before that.
I don't game on it, or run anything particularly intensive. All I really use is Chrome, Word and OneNote, dominantly for research. Occasionally Skype and Zoom, but I ensure they don't stay running in the background, and usually I'm at my desk plugged in for those. The keyboard backlight stays off, and I keep the brightness fairly low. If I was performing demanding tasks I might understand this sort of battery life, but at the moment it's nowhere near up to par, and disappointing for what is otherwise a very good laptop. I've tried reinstalling battery drivers as recommended in a similar post, but that hasn't helped.
I'd rather not return it, so any other suggestions would be appreciated before I resort to that.
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I've had my Surface Laptop 3 (Intel I5 Core, 8GB Ram, 256GB) for nearly six months now, and I think it's a great laptop in all but one respect - its battery life. From the start, it never lived up to its marketing promise of 11.5 hours (not even close, even though I never really expected it to reach that max range - it's only ever really managed a bit over six hours, with my battery report estimating it's first entry months ago at 6:50 hours), but it's steadily gotten a lot worse. These last couple of weeks, I've been lucky to get 4 hours out of it, which is far below what I need and use it for. My latest battery report for estimated battery life shows this:
| 020-09-21 - 2020-09-28 | 4:20:51 | 304:19:15 5 % / 16 h | 4:41:45 | 328:42:31 5 % / 16 h |
| 2020-09-28 - 2020-10-05 | 5:17:11 | - | 5:45:20 | - |
| 2020-10-05 | 102:04:42 | 55:16:33 29 % / 16 h | 110:44:03 | 59:57:47 27 % / 16 h |
| 2020-10-06 | 4:28:34 | 601:11:42 3 % / 16 h | 4:51:20 | 652:10:22 2 % / 16 h |
| 2020-10-07 | 4:00:52 | 14:49:41 108 % / 16 h | 4:21:18 | 16:05:09 99 % / 16 h |
| 2020-10-08 | 4:14:46 | 31:58:33 50 % / 16 h | 4:39:20 | 35:03:33 46 % / 16 h |
| 2020-10-09 | 4:00:49 | 24:27:00 65 % / 16 h | 4:23:56 | 26:47:46 60 % / 16 h |
| 2020-10-10 | 5:06:38 | 44:34:33 36 % / 16 h | 5:36:03 | 48:51:12 33 % / 16 h |
| 2020-10-11 | 3:14:13 | 673734:19:12 - / 16 h | 3:33:44 | 203066:17:36 - / 16 h |
| 2020-10-12 | 2:45:42 | 53:20:59 30 % / 16 h | 2:59:50 | 57:54:03 28 % / 16 h |
| 2020-10-13 | 4:20:42 | 89:27:04 18 % / 16 h | 4:42:57 | 97:04:55 16 % / 16 h |
Needless to say, that one 102 hour blip on the 5th of October is strange, but I don't know if it's connected to the issues I'm having, since the problem dates to before that.
I don't game on it, or run anything particularly intensive. All I really use is Chrome, Word and OneNote, dominantly for research. Occasionally Skype and Zoom, but I ensure they don't stay running in the background, and usually I'm at my desk plugged in for those. The keyboard backlight stays off, and I keep the brightness fairly low. If I was performing demanding tasks I might understand this sort of battery life, but at the moment it's nowhere near up to par, and disappointing for what is otherwise a very good laptop. I've tried reinstalling battery drivers as recommended in a similar post, but that hasn't helped.
I'd rather not return it, so any other suggestions would be appreciated before I resort to that.
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