how much battery life do i have left in hours

#How much battery life do i have left in hours drivers#
#How much battery life do i have left in hours full#

I'm not sure it's the Surface Book that's defective, so much as it seems that it might be a power management issue with the Surface hardware and Windows 10. Your 3 hours with 'minimal' usage does not seem normal, so I'm starting to wonder what you mean by minimal usage, since it's happened to you on 2 different units. When just surfing, playing casual games like Solitaire, etc, I keep my screen at 50% brightness and probably get 8 or so hours out of the batteries.

#How much battery life do i have left in hours full#

Playing PC games is hard on the batteries between the GPU running full steam and the screen brightness up, though.

At 75% brightness (the setting I use when playing Diablo 3 - with the graphics settings nearly maxed in the game), I get 2-3 hours of gaming time before the battery saver kicks in (I usually notice it because the screen dims). Not sure what to do now, it cant be that all of our surface books are ntemplating whether to try another SB, wait for updates or sadly return the device.I have the i5/256/dGPU Surface Book as well. Last edited by Laura Knotek 11-11-2015 at 11:50 PM. Not sure what to do now, it cant be that all of our surface books are ntemplating whether to try another SB, wait for updates or sadly return the device. My crummy old 250$ clearance HP laptop got 2x more battery life than this SB which is supposed to be a premium device that i paid top dollar for.

I am so frustrated and perplexed as this is not even REMOTELY close to what microsoft advertised with the SB battery life. So they sent me a new replacement surface book thinking that my device had a defective battery.Įven more infuriating, the NEW surface book that just arrived yesterday is having the SAME problem and this time to an even worse degree.Īfter a full charge i got 3 hours of battery life with very light-minimal usage on 75% brightness Unfortunately it did not make any difference and the last resort they advised was to do a hard reset of the computer.Įven after doing this i was having the same issue of rapid battery drain and estimated battery life jumping to different numbers every 2 minutes.

#How much battery life do i have left in hours drivers#

They made me uninstall the drivers and do a manual 2 button shutdown to see if an auto re-installation of the battery drivers would resolve the issue. I am experiencing the same exact battery life drain issue.Īfter a full charge i got only around 4-5 hours of battery life on my I5 256 dGPU surface book and so hopped on a chat with microsoft support.