Macbook Pro with Retina Display battery life?

Hi all,
Received my brand new retina display macbook just yesterday around 11:30pm 10/07/2012. Battery was around 85%. Since then till now, 3:52pm 11/07/2012, I have had to charge it 3 times. Early this morning before I went to bed around 12am, it was at 97% with about 4 hours of life. When I woke up at 12pm, it was at 64%. Right now it;s at 97% and says 6:04 but it keeps changing from 4:59 and lower. All settings are at default. Bluetooth is turned off. Now it's 96% and says 5:12.. I just lost about an hour in the last percentage. Anyone know whats going on?
I called apple and they said that everything seems to be fine after me giving them some numbers.

turn automatic brightness off.
keep your screen around 50% and see if you have anything loading in your login items. delete the ones you don't need.
Also check activity monitor under all processes. highlight the ones using the highest % CPU and hit quit process.
see if those make your battery last longer.
good luck and enjoy your new Retina.

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Oh and im also watching a youtube video on 720p.
My question is this:
Is the battery life supposed to be like this?
ON mountain lion 10.8.2 and a lot of people are saying i should be at about 5-8 hours.
Any recommended solutions?
EDIT
Just after i finished writing this my battery time estimate went up, its now 4-4:50 hours left

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Turn everything down as low as you can stomach and you should get a good 6 hours of battery time, if you keep your video to a minimum and use the built-in graphics card (to force this, use gfxCardStatus).
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No one here works for Apple nor does Apple visit this message board. We are all end users like yourself helping each other out.
"Official" Apple "replacement" announcements will be listed on their website and possibly on their Knowledge Base website.
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i got my macbook pro with retina display only in mar 2014 and used for coming 3-months. not heavy usage in fact.
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Utilities
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Hi,
I am a researcher so I store a lot of papers, data, and use numerical software. I have had a 17inch high spec macbook pro for over a year now. I find that apart from the large screen, it was unnecessary to get the high specs. This is why. Firstly, the hard drive is easy to replace and upgrade, apple charge a lot for their own ones. Secondly, the ram in my one was upgradable (which i didnt know when i bought it) and i since upgraded to 16gigs from 8 and its amazing. Thirdly, the newer macbook pros run hotter than the previous ones.
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If I think of anything else i will post back. Dont forget to install GFX card status too and use integrated only when on battery, i get up to ten hours of battery life without wifi, around 8 with wifi.
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When it gets to a certain temperatue it would have gone into thermal shutdown, from your scenario it looks like your machine failed to enter sleep mode or power nap due to some applications that was holding it up.
as this machine was inside a sleeve and still running the machine couldn't dissipate the heat and ramped up the fans to attempt to cool itself hence the battery drain.

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it is like car insurance. You purchase it hoping to never need it. But thank your lucky stars for having it after the sheet metal goes CRUNCH!
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