How is your battery life on the Surface Pro 7?

Anonymous
2020-01-03T19:11:20+00:00

I upgraded to the Surface Pro 7 - 8gb, 256GB from the SP4 8gb, 256GB. My SP4 hardly got an hour of battery and would shut off on battery without warning, so I constantly had it plugged into the wall wherever I went.  I was hoping for much better on the SP7. Currently I am struggling to get a full 5 hours...closer to 4 hours. 

Yes, I know I use Chrome and Edge, a number of Office windows open, might watch some YouTube and Netflix. 

4 to 5 hours seems pathetically small.

Any other comments, suggestions or comparisons? (I know there's a need to 'bed in' a new battery in, I've had the laptop almost 2 weeks now, the battery should be 'bedding' in by now.

thanks in advance

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-04-23T00:36:26+00:00

    It is clearly false advertising. My OS is window 10 pro not home

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-23T00:29:15+00:00

    Realistically, we should not have to apply so many fixes and mitigations to crawl a little closer to the advertised battery life.

    I never had to do all of this to improve the battery life on my Lenovo.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-22T23:56:38+00:00

    Interesting - not one review I've found managed 10 hours. Of users, there are hundreds of posts of people saying 4-5 hours, so masses of evidence out there!

    Applying everyone's suggestions gave me 5.5 hrs (battery pro verified)

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-22T14:57:22+00:00

    Interesting - not one review I've found managed 10 hours. Of users, there are hundreds of posts of people saying 4-5 hours, so masses of evidence out there!

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