Late-2013 13" rMBP Poor Battery Life ( 5 Hours)

I recently purchased a Late-2013 13" Retina MacBook Pro and the battery life is nowhere near Apple's rating.  I've doing light web surfing with medium brightness, no keyboard backlight, and no bluetooth, and I get less than 5 hours on a full charge.
Most reviewers seem to be getting 9-10 hours and I have no idea how that's possible.
I cycled the battery a couple of times when I first got the laptop, but otherwise haven't done anything special.  I've installed all available updates, and have only found one or two other people with this  same issue.  Nothing seems to be using the CPU excessively, so I have no idea what could be causing such a huge battery drain.
I may try restting PRAM and the SMC controller, but otherwise I have no idea what to do.  Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Daniel

same here, way bellow 5 hours! my old 2.3 model 2011 with normal non SSD drive used to have a bettr battery life. this is disappointing.
I think it may be Mavericks as this machine should not drain battery. all hardware used is battery efficient. don't know, i don't find anything else to plame but OS! hope apple will address that issue in future mavericks updates.
I'l report this issue. have you guys done so?

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