Battery life on new macbook ai 11

Hello,
I've just bought a macbook air 11" 128GB and the battery life is less than 3 hours when no application is running, when my battery is fully charged it's about 3h, and it goes so fast when I start workign on it. On teh apple site I see up to 5h
Is it just mine or is it a known issue?
thank you so much!

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No one seems to have a solution which is even more upsetting than the problem. Hey Apple, I want my money back!
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