How long of battery life can you actually get on your U410/U300?

Hi --
I got my U410 Ultrabook today and thus far have been extremely happy. The internet isn't spotty, the touchpad and keyboard work great, and it looks beautiful. The only concern I have is the battery life. Lenovo advertises 8 hours but I expected five or six realistcally.
I started mine up right off the bat and it was at around 80%. I did some hardcore downloading and was using it constantly and it died in maybe 2.5 hours (to be generous). I'm charging it right now and am hoping to get a better result off a full battery.
What's everyone else's actual batery life experience? What are you usually averaging from a full battery? I figure if I turn down the brightness a lot and don't download a lot I can probably max out the performance.
Honestly I'd be happy with five hours on a full charge.

milwaukeephil wrote:
I was the one who reported 5.5 hours of battery.
On the first day, when the battery was dying pretty quickly, I went into Resource Monitor (quickest way to get there is to start Task Manager, go to the Performance tab, and click Resource Monitor at the bottom of that window.)
You can sort that list by the CPU column.
Anyway, I saw Quick Update eating up a large amount of CPU time.... like 25% or more. Quick Update is bloatware, designed to update email and social media in the background. Do people still even use local email clients??? ;-)
After uninstalling Lenovo Quick Update my CPU usage dropped dramatically and battery life went up 2x.
Thanks, battery life has definitely improved after a week now and with brightness settings adjusted and uninstalling Quick Update it's even better.

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