acer aspire 7 Is my new laptop's short battery life something that I need to be worried about?

Hello everyone. few days ago, I bought acer aspire 7 2022 model with i5 1240P, RTX 3050 and 16 GB dual channel RAM. I am statified overall, but the battery life is too sort, and I am worried that I got a damaged product. I am only getting 1.5 to 2 hrs of battery life in my day to day use. Since I am a software engineering, and I use a lot of apps simultaneously, I thought maybe my usage is causing this problem. I did check the battery health; it sits at 96%.

Yesterday I decided to run a 1080p YouTube video at 50% brightness, keyboard backlight off, and volume at 0 for about an hour. In that hour, the battery had decreased by 18%, which makes the battery life at around 5 hrs +, if I had run this test until my battery died.

So my question for you guys is, given all of this, is the battery life as expected or is there something wrong with the battery?

Thank you.

[Edited the thread to add model name]

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/686594/is-my-new-laptops-short-battery-life-something-that-i-need-to-be-worried-about

It depends on the model number of your Aspire 7 laptop, just as an example the Aspire 7 A715-75G-544V Notebook has the following battery specs, so look at the full specs of your Aspire 7 and look at what Acer quotes as its battery information, as these figures are really a sales gimmick and pitch, as different applications consume more battery power and you will have to do these tests yourself.

Battery Information

Number of Cells - 3-cell
Battery Chemistry - Lithium Ion (Li-Ion)
Maximum Battery Run Time - 8.50 Hours
Battery Energy - 48 Wh

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/686594/is-my-new-laptops-short-battery-life-something-that-i-need-to-be-worried-about

Did you perform a complete battery charge cycle when you started up your laptop for the first time? If not BIOS and Windows have not registered the capacity of your battery yet and all stats (battery meter/Battery Report) are inaccurate. Also disable any battery limiting bloatware you may be using like the 80% charge limit option in Acer Care Center. To allow BIOS and Windows register your battery capacity (these instructions are included with all new batteries) unplug your adapter and drain the battery till the laptop turns itself off (hibernates). Then plug-in the adapter and charge without using the laptop till the amber LED turns blue. Check if you have the latest BIOS version for your Aspire7, Acer released new versions that modify the battery charging control for some models.
IMO a new 48 Wh battery should last 4-5 hours with an i5 processor which you got watching a video, but you did not tell us what browser you used and what apps are running at the background, in Windows11 you can check that and mitigate apps priority in Task Manager or just disable/uninstall a program like Avast and Firefox (a power hungry browser) and what power plan are you using, don't use Ultra-High performance but the balanced plan instead, did you turn off the full time USB port charging option in Quick Access and enabled USB Selective Suspend in Windows, uncheck WIFI and BT adapters to have power when the laptop is shutdown, Are you using Fast startup (hybrid stand-by that consumes a lot of power) and the list goes on and on. Maintenance is another power issue, check what your RAM and CPU do on idle, check the history, get rid of old Windows update files with Storage Sense (click on the Temp bin at the bottom) it may find 100s of Gbs files like OldDos. Trim your SSDs, defrag your HDD if any.

2 hours battery life on a full charge is not good unless you play games then it is very good. Leave your laptop plugged in when your RTX 3050 intensively, I have an Intel UHD iGPU that uses very little power but if the RTX is your iGPU it will consume a lot of power.

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