How is your battery life on the Surface Pro 7?

Well, i had a few weeks with better battery life after the may update. This morning i lost more than 50% in 2 hours with the device asleep. Total battery life was 2:54 before it died. Only had edge and word open. Aside from office and MS edge chrome i don't have much installed. Amazon music and slack are the only other installed programs. this is a pc for work and 1300 CAD should get you more than 3 hours battery life. 

This battery drain combined with the closing of every MS store, except 4, I won't buy another surface device.

Sounds very frustrating! Have you instilled the Windows 10 2004 update?  I'm still getting about 7 hours of continuous YouTube playing (50% brightness, Bluetooth off, power saver mode on) after instilling it.  However, my battery life had decreased to around 5 hours of continuous YouTube playing until I bit the bullet and instilled the 2004 update.  Hopefully my luck will continue to hold...

Hi,

What do you mean by great battery life?

My old Surface Pro 4 had about 4 hours battery life and I thought that insufficient by today's standards.

So I upgraded to SP7 and to my surprise I only  get 4.5- 5hours max. Plus a fluctuating brightness level which is very annoying...

I don't believe a product should be marketed as having 9.5-10 h battery life when it can barely reach half of that...

Hi,

What do you mean by great battery life?

My old Surface Pro 4 had about 4 hours battery life and I thought that insufficient by today's standards.

So I upgraded to SP7 and to my surprise I only  get 4.5- 5hours max. Plus a fluctuating brightness level which is very annoying...

I don't believe a product should be marketed as having 9.5-10 h battery life when it can barely reach half of that...

I'm not sure about the USA but in the UK there are rules about false advertising, which this most certainly is. 

I guess the equivalent is car manufacturers giving false MPG or CO2 data. At the vet least you can't advertise MPG based on the car idling with the lights turned off and nothing that makes it a car being used.

As a frame of reference, after I returned two SP7s because I was lucky to get 4-5 hours out of the battery, I purchased the HP Spectre x360.  Pretty much no matter what I am doing I easily get more than 8 hours on a charge.  That is with screen brightness at 100%, WiFi on, streaming, doing data crunching, whatever.  If I take the time to think about it because I am worried about how long I will be between outlets, it is not a challenge to get 12 hours by lowering the screen brightness and turning off WiFi if I am not using it.  Just playing video locally, no WiFi, and it gets even more time between charges.  I highly recommend it. Note this machine comes in HD and 4k.  The 4k battery life is not anywhere near what I get on the regular HD.  Screen is not as sharp as the SP7 or the 4k version of the HP, but it is larger and sleeker looking than the SP7 because of the small bezels, and if you are not sitting comparing the machines directly you would never notice or complain about the HD lower resolution.