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It's a regedit setting. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\CsEnabled set to 0 From that point, you can choose to turn off screen and change sleep time settings to Never

Disable Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Connected state. All your issues should go away

^ Chrome likes CPU cycles hehe. For me, Internet Explorer is still the battery life champ. Edge sometimes eats too much CPU for no reason while IE just idles at 0.0 to 0.1% CPU.

About 10 hours per battery life report for me. I use my SP plugged in for the most part.

^ When you disable Connected standby, you get the full options, even with Windows 8.1

I use MS outlook to get my outlook (exchange) email and work (exchange) email. Never have used the standard mail account as its functionality is too limited for my needs.

I always use the start -> shutdown way, but I haven't had a problem with waking up from hibernate when I had left it on battery for a while

M3 should be more than good enough for simple video editing (1080p) as long as Intel Quicksync is enabled. For programming like basic Matlab or Solidworks, it should be OK too

I use it lightly so I get 7-8 hours before it reaches less than 7%. I always game plugged-in so I never experienced how bad it is when gaming. I don't have a chance to go to Microsoft store soon though to check some SSD benches myself on various models there. It would be good if you can bring...

I think you need to step up to the i7 model like I did to get the Samsung PM971 SSD

Here's my latest SSD bench on the samsung with just over a terabyte of reads and writes:

Can you post a screenshot of the Crystal Disk Info?

After benchmarks is done, I scroll down until I see monitoring then toggle it to view all the details

Research how Microsoft did it, but IIRC it was WiFi OFF, playing video on loop at maybe half brightness or less.

I'd exchange it. They must have put a blown speaker in your unit.

I didn't know the free version doesn't have access to monitoring feature. I paid for the advanced version for a discount back then when PC Mark 10 debuted in late June.

Check your detailed monitoring graphs and compare to mine. If you're not getting 4.0 GHz for the most part, you won't get the 4000+ scores

You probably have the i5 version which would make sense with your scores

^ Wait for firmware upgrades, but it would be helpful to let MS know about that on their feedback app.