I picked up my SB first thing Monday morning the 26th at 10:00 AM. I've been using it literally non-stop ever since. I've only had it on battery a few times for only a couple of hours at a time. I'm a night owl and decided to do a test as I was working last night about an hour before I slept. I did lots of looking and note taking in OneNote.
Went on battery at 1:18 AM Oct 30.
Noted that screen dimmed the moment charging cord removed.
Brightness is at 60% for the entire test.
95% 7 hours 45 minutes remaining 1:42 AM
90% 7 hours 19 minutes remaining 2:00 AM
83% 6 hours 33 minutes remaining 2:31 AM
(Shutting the lid and going to bed. Will check battery in the AM.)
58% 3 hours 45 minutes remaining 5:33 AM
52% 6:00 AM (remaining time not displayed)
47% 3 hours 20 minutes remaining 6:18 AM
(Display Driver has stopped and restarted) 6:27 AM
43% 2 hours 44 minutes remaining 6:32 AM
34% 2 hours 40 minutes remaining 7:09 AM
29% 1 hour 22 minutes remaining 7:31 AM
20% 1 hour 31 minutes remaining 7:50 AM
(battery saver at 20% has turned on)
18% 55 minutes remaining 8:00 AM
15% 1 hour 1 minutes 8:10 AM
14% 26 minutes 8:12 AM
12% 23 minutes 8:20 AM
Just a little over 7 hours of battery.
Plugging in…
I didn't like the drop from 83% to 58% after sleeping for 3 hours and doing nothing other than putting the SB to sleep too.
I was looking forward to getting 12 hours of battery life like Panos said. This is nothing close. Disappointing.