Battery going down every minute.. 2011 MBP.

I have a 15" Pro 2011 (early) i7, 8 GB Ram.
My battery goes down 1% every minute.... So If I use my MBP for 100 minutes, the battery is dead....
I have closed everything off, apart from safari. Screen brightness is at 6 blocks.. Even though it tells me I have 3:49 left...
Any explenations?
It's all updated with the latest updates.

I just wanted to follow up with an update about the problem I was experiencing. It turns out I bought a wonderful macbook pro with a defective logic board I'm not sure how that gets by quality control, this is my first Mac and needless to say I'm not impressed the computer has been with an authorized Mac reseller and repair place thats still waiting on parts from Apple after 5 days another area I'm not impressed with as they said Apple did not ship parts to Canada this is a brand new computer about two weeks old now. I would recommend to anyone that is having the same problems to take your computer to an authorized apple store or repair depot and get it checked out. Now the question I have is with a problem like that would it have damaged other parts of the computer?
As a refresher the symptoms I had with the computer out of the box was the charge indicator would alternate between amber and green on the mag safe and the tooltip on the display would alternate between saying charging then to not charging while the battery discharged with the computer plugged in. Some programs made this behavior more rapid those programs that seemed to trigger a more rapid display of the symptoms was playing World of warcraft,iTunes,Safari,Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)though if these programs were not running the problem would happen it was just a bit slower in developing. I Have the mac book pro spring 2011 17 2.2Ghz i7 model.
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