I have the surface pro 3, 512GB,
I was doing a local presentation today using Chrome (64 bit). I started with 100% charge and after 95 minutes the batter drained to 7% and died. I was on WIFI but not browsing, had MS Word open in the background, with full screen brightness.
I know MSFT claims great battery life with the Surface, but this seems pretty poor as compared to a Mac. I know we can't compare apples to apples here, but I am wondering if I have a battery problem or does the Surface just not get great battery life?
Which version of Chrome? Chrome is notorious at killing battery life on Windows Devices, Google basically uses a trick to keep Chrome's binary in CPU for a performance boost, but it never allows the CPU to idle impacting battery life.
Where you also using Chromecast to project? Its another battery killer on Windows.
They've been doing it for a few years and rumored to working on a fix. I use IE and Office (large Excel Pivots, Writing Briefs and Creating large decks and very heavy inking in OneNote). I get 6-9 hours of battery life.