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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Same issues. Wanted to change from SP4 to SB (i7, 16gb 512 SSD), Got one to test
I spend lots of time running in-between meetings/workgroup sessions. Carying around a laptop (SB base) into meetings is frowned upon or looking for a power point before a meeting is not on. Used the clipboard today. Started meeting at 100% (75% screen and battery saver enabled). At end of 1.5 hr meeting battery was at 39% and did not make it through my next meeting. Basically using One Note to minute/note/draw in meetings. Took over an hour to charge up again
As much as I like the unit very much, lovely keyboard, clipboard screen nice to use (although has some DPI scaling issues), but battery life of the clipboard is a non-starter unfortunately, so back to Microsoft it goes and I'll need to stick to the SP4, it seems [Pity]
Cheers, all
