Help new to Macbook pro.

Hi! I just bought my macbook pro the other day and was wondering if the battery life of it is just up to 3hrs? All I do is surf the net and download torrents via bit torrent. Could you help me how to maximize the battery life and also it's really hot. How would you know if it's already over heating? So I could still replace this if ever this problems I'm having is not normal. Thank you!

Many people are having this problem. Before mountain lion, I used to get up to 7 hours of working time and days of sleep time. Now my battery gives me 2.5 hours at the most. As far as I know there is nothing you can do apart from wait - which is what I am doing.
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