My battery is 100% yet the estimated time is 6:15 only. Why is this?

Hello. I am new to Mac. I got my first MacBook Pro 15 with retina for Christmases and in that machine the estimated time always displayed more than 7 hours. Last week I replaced my laptop for one with 16GB. In the new machine the time usually show as 6:15 wit 100% charged battery. Can someone tell me if this is something I should be concerned about or is this due to some settings? Thank you in advance.

You should consider yourself fortunate to be getting such battery life. First the Apple advertised battery life hours are predicated on very 'ideal' conditions that the overwhelming amount of users do not adhere to. If you get 60% - 70% of these figures in normal application usage, your are doing just fine.
The estimated battery life figures that are displayed can vary radically. They reflect the time left based on what is being done at that particular moment. Open another application and the time will decrease. Close an application, the time will increase.
Increase of RAM will have no meaningful affect on battery life. The number and type of applications that you are using are the determinants regarding battery life.
here are a couple of support articles that you may find informative regarding your battery:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
Ciao.

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