I got a macbook pro 13inch (2011late), battery question

I got a macbook pro 13inch (2011late), but my battery just able to work 3 hours?
thank you

the 7 hour battery claim is based on having ONE web page open that has no flash content, and having ONE word processing document open. That's it.  This info was obtained from an Apple store employee when I asked them.

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    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1177233
    http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10344626-263.html?tag=mfiredir
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    http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2063/_index.html
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    http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130808212838AAYDeTk
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17706929#post17706929

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