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It basically keeps the Wifi radio in a high power mode, chewing through power.

If you are doing something that is sing a lot of data, or keeps a constant data connection, battery life will be bad.

It might seem minor, but the keyboard backlight can really make a difference to battery life. Anything over about 0% and expect a steep battery decline.

Screen brightness can really impact it.

If I am doing heavier sort of work, then the battery drops off fairly fast. If I decide to be doing some light browsing plus watching videos on YouTube (using MyTube! app to avid the YouTube website which is a major CPU hog) I will get between 6-8 hours, usually in the 7-7.5hour range. If I am using my Surface Pro 8 for just some light weight web browsing with the screen refresh at 60hz, I will normally get 8-10 hours of battery. Battery life varies significantly with settings, usage and other factors.

All settings were default except screen brightness was set to 150nits with Auto-Brightness and Adaptive Colour disabled. The active use portion consists of (1) a web browsing test accessing 8 popular websites over multiple open tabs, (2) a productivity test utilising Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, and (3) a portion of time with the device in use with idle applications. Testing consisted of full battery discharge with a mixture of active use and modern standby.

Testing conducted by Microsoft in August 2021 using preproduction software and preproduction Intel® 11th Gen Core™ i5-1135G7, 256GB, 8GB RAM device. Surface Pro 8 battery life: Up to 16 hours of battery life based on typical Surface device usage. I'm usually around an outlet so it's not a huge deal, but it's good to know what settings to use if I won't be able to charge for an extended period. Tried switching to Edge, turning off the keyboard light, and disabling Bluetooth in addition to running at 60hz in Battery Saver mode with about 50% brightness and it bumped me up to about 7 hours, which is nice. Is this just what it's like to use a Surface Pro? I'm considering returning it.Įdit: Thanks for all the help and info, everyone. I ran a battery test and it says I'm still at the full 50,000mah of capacity. The specs promise about 16 hours of battery life, but I just don't see how the numbers can be that far off. I bought it for work, but I can't get through even half of my workday before running out of juice.

Using it normally at 120hz drops me down to 3-4 hours of battery life. I'm just using it to browse the internet and edit documents. Even with the refresh rate set to 60hz, battery saver on, and brightness set to about 50%, 5 hours is the most I can get out of it.