Windows 10: Terrible Surface Laptop 3 Battery Life

Hi,

I've had my Surface Laptop 3 Intel I5 Core, 8GB Ram, 256GB for nearly six months now, and I think it's a great laptop in all but one respect - its battery life. From the start, it never lived up to its marketing promise of 11.5 hours not even close, even though I never really expected it to reach that max range - it's only ever really managed a bit over six hours, with my battery report estimating it's first entry months ago at 6:50 hours, but it's steadily gotten a lot worse. These last couple of weeks, I've been lucky to get 4 hours out of it, which is far below what I need and use it for. My latest battery report for estimated battery life shows this:

020-09-21 - 2020-09-28

4:20:51
304:19:15
5 % / 16 h4:41:45
328:42:31
5 % / 16 h​

2020-09-28 - 2020-10-05

5:17:11​

-​

5:45:20​

-​

2020-10-05

102:04:42
55:16:33
29 % / 16 h110:44:03
59:57:47
27 % / 16 h​

2020-10-06

4:28:34
601:11:42
3 % / 16 h4:51:20
652:10:22
2 % / 16 h​

2020-10-07

4:00:52
14:49:41
108 % / 16 h4:21:18
16:05:09
99 % / 16 h​

2020-10-08

4:14:46
31:58:33
50 % / 16 h4:39:20
35:03:33
46 % / 16 h​

2020-10-09

4:00:49
24:27:00
65 % / 16 h4:23:56
26:47:46
60 % / 16 h​

2020-10-10

5:06:38
44:34:33
36 % / 16 h5:36:03
48:51:12
33 % / 16 h​

2020-10-11

3:14:13
673734:19:12
- / 16 h3:33:44
203066:17:36
- / 16 h​

2020-10-12

2:45:42
53:20:59
30 % / 16 h2:59:50
57:54:03
28 % / 16 h​

2020-10-13

4:20:42
89:27:04
18 % / 16 h4:42:57
97:04:55
16 % / 16 h​

Needless to say, that one 102 hour blip on the 5th of October is strange, but I don't know if it's connected to the issues I'm having, since the problem dates to before that.


I don't game on it, or run anything particularly intensive. All I really use is Chrome, Word and OneNote, dominantly for research. Occasionally Skype and Zoom, but I ensure they don't stay running in the background, and usually I'm at my desk plugged in for those. The keyboard backlight stays off, and I keep the brightness fairly low. If I was performing demanding tasks I might understand this sort of battery life, but at the moment it's nowhere near up to par, and disappointing for what is otherwise a very good laptop. I've tried reinstalling battery drivers as recommended in a similar post, but that hasn't helped.

I'd rather not return it, so any other suggestions would be appreciated before I resort to that.

:)

 

Surface Laptop 3

According to Microsoft, the battery life of the Surface Laptop 3 is about 11.5 hours based on "typical Surface device usage." This result isn't amazing by any means, but it's not a bad one, either, meaning that overall, the Surface Laptop 3's battery life
is average

Now, when they say "typical Surface device usage"; but, if you are extending screen ad given that the laptop is now probably 3-4 years old it will degrade the battery - no different than a cell phone after a while. It just gets degraded.

You could look into replacing the battery.

 

New Surface Laptop 3 Drivers and Firmware for Windows 10 - October 22

Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...update-history

 

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