Surface Book Battery Life - what are you getting

Anonymous
2015-10-28T18:44:45+00:00

Hi everyone,

I am not doing anything to intensive with my Surface Book.  Web, email, onenote, outlook.  I am not getting anything near 12 hours of battery life and 4 if i am lucky.

Right now it says I have 33% battery life and have an 1 hour and 26 minutes remaining??

What are you getting?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-10T06:59:00+00:00

    Hello, I recently just purchased my SB beginning of this week. I love the product but am wondering does everyone here truly get 8-12 hours usage time from the SB. I use my SB for basic work usage plus web browsing and feel like I don't truly get 8-12 hours of battery life on a full charge. I turn off my backlit keyboard and leave the battery saver mode on as well. It feels like I am only getting around 6-7 hours max. 

    My Surface Book is an i7/16GB/512GB.

    The screen draws most of the battery power.  When on battery I have my Power Option set to turn my screen off and to sleep in 5 minutes.  All other Power Options are at the defaults.  I use Windows Hello Face Recognition so it is very convenient to use such a short timeout.  My battery life times are for a normal workday with time out for lunch and normal breaks.

    If I set my brightness at 50% I can average about 12 hours of battery life. 

    If I set my brightness at 75% I can average about 8 hours of battery life.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T22:33:54+00:00

    Hello, I recently just purchased my SB beginning of this week. I love the product but am wondering does everyone here truly get 8-12 hours usage time from the SB. I use my SB for basic work usage plus web browsing and feel like I don't truly get 8-12 hours of battery life on a full charge. I turn off my backlit keyboard and leave the battery saver mode on as well. It feels like I am only getting around 6-7 hours max.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-10T15:18:17+00:00

    I have the Intel i5 256gb ram dGPU 8GB Ram model. Getting 7-8 hrs battery life, using hibernate and suggested screen brightness. Doing basic tasks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-10T15:07:06+00:00

    Please post your model or SB with your battery life. I have the higher end version and would like to know if there's a difference in battery between it and the less powerful SBs, or if my unit just sucks.  

    I get about 5-6 hours with battery saver on, 50% brightness, with 4-5 programs open.

    Once at a conference I had Wifi off, location off, bluetooth off, 20% brightness, and I could have gotten about 8.5 hours, which is still not close to what was advertised.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-12-10T14:55:54+00:00

    I don't even hold down the power button I just close the lid, doesn't it still go into hibernation that way?

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