My Macbook Pro is barely holding any charge

Help!
My Macbook Pro is only 2 weeks old and on a full charge its depleting in about 40 minutes.
Ive rung apple care 6 times already and i havent managed to fix the problem.
Ive tried a power reset 3 times and that hasnt worked either.
PLEASE HELP!

There's a program called Winclone that will make an image of it that you can then restore to the new machine. Run Winclone, do a full backup on your MBP, then when you get a new one you can just create the Bootcamp partition and use Winclone to put the image back.
Don't miss the 14 day window. They're strict about that.

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