New T430s with a series of issues

My T430s just arrived two days ago with very few of the drivers installed, more prominently the touchpad and track point drivers, which I was able to easily resolve but such careless production was not something that I expected from Lenovo. However, it has now become apparent that three significant manufacturing issues must also be dealt with that are beyond my control:
1- Very, very limited battery life: Clocks 2h 58min a few minutes after fully charged with hardly anything running in the background (only chrome window and typical windows background processes). I find this very unreasonable and infuriating.
2- CPU process running at near full capacity coupled with fan noise: After pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete it is indicated that my CPU is consistently operating between 80-90% capacity with basically nothing running. Furthermore, I believe that this deficiency is responsible for the noticable fan noise being emitted from the laptop although I am not certain.
3- Supposedly limited physical memory: Again, after reaching Task Manager I am also notified that I have used up 45% of Physical Memory when I have 401 GB of 450 GB free on my C Drive,
I am very concerned about these problems and I would like to know how to seamlessly get them resolved. Beyond these issues, my T430s is a phenomenal laptop, but these issues are a total deal breaker.
Thank you very much.

What OS are you using? Sounds like Win 7. That should be good for you since Lenovo's Power Manager is only available for WIin 7,
In your last post, the hyperlink points toward the battery thread that did not really describe the real problem with the panasonic battery. The panasonic battery was not very stable and would cause unexpected hard crashes with 35-40% power remaining. Obviously, continued hard crashes is not good for any OS.
If you are using Win 7, Lenovo's latest Power Manager will automatically switch between two modes. One is for battery life.and sets the capacity closer to 38wh. The other is for battery performance and sets the capacity closer to 44wh.
Look at the task manager under the processes tab. Set the sort by CPU% the in real time. You should be able to isolate the abnormal processes that use the most CPU utilization.when the total spikes up to 95%.
Also, you should check your device manager to see if any devices have a yellow or red warning, This would indicate either a faulty hardware component or corrupt driver.
Lastly, I get about 6-7 hours of battery life with the six cell battery. See my post on maximizing battery life for the T430S

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