New mbpr late 2013 2.6GHz

Hi there
I just bought a new mbpr late 2013 15" yesterday.
The battery is fully loaded but only has power for 3 hours and 15 minutes?
And the display brightness is very low..
Running OSX Mavericks, my old mbp 2008 has a better battery life time....
Any suggestions on this?

I have the same model.
There have been reports of incorrect estimated battery time remaining under Mavericks. Also, if you are performing GPU/CPU intensive tasks on battery power, these reports would be close to expected (Handbrake for encoding, gaming, etc).
Increase the display brightness under System Preferences > Displays
Reset the SMC in regards to the first issue:
Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Support - Apple

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