Macbook's 7 Hour Battery not working

My macbook pro is only a few days old and never lasts longer than 3 hours. I thought this was supposed to have a 7 hour battery? I have the backlights on the keys off as well. Why isn't holding a 7 hour charge?
Thanks a lot.

Apple should really address this a bit more to avoid confusion and panic (me included in panic). I had the same question... Anandtech says he got 6 hrs from his new macbook, and I never seem to get over 3 hours!! Anyways what I ended up doing was a bit of research on Apples Website, and they suggest recalibrating the battery first time around.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1490
I had gone through 3 charge cycles and with a 3 hr battery life all three times, I let the machine run all the way down into sleep, left it overnight in sleep mode and then charged it to full. As I am typing on the machine now... since past 30 mins battery life has gone down only 5% and for the FIRST time....as opposed to it being at 85% by now, and it shows 7 hrs remaining as opposed to 2 or 3 Woo hoo! ... I am going to let this run till the battery is depleted and post how long I got from the battery.
Do the calibration.... its just the battery breaking in!!
BTW I am testing with: 70% brightness, all widgets on, Safari and Mail open, iTunes playing mp3's at 30% volume, keyboard backlight on bluetooth off, push notifications on, Wireless 5Ghz on.
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