Battery draining way too fast

[Zaidos]

I've noticed a long while ago that the battery life when unplugged from the charger lasts LESS than 1 hour which is unbelievable! I thought this was normal, but I realized that it was way too low when I looked at other laptop that have batteries that can last over 6 hours, I don't know if this is normal on this model or the battery is defective and I need help to decide on that.

Note:

1. I mainly watch YouTube videos when i plug the charger off

2. No, there is no background process that's using too much recourses , when i open up taskbar, the laptops idles at around 10% CPU usage, even while using Chrome

3. the worst part is, I use the lowest brightness setting all the time!

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@Zaidos 

Sounds like you are streaming videos while running on a battery.  That is most likely the cause of the battery drain.

I have resource monitors running on my laptop and when I do streaming, the four cores of the processor are at nearly 100% each!  What do you think that would do to a battery?  Run it down quickly, of course.

If you're going to do streaming, you need to have the laptop connected to the wall mains.

[Zaidos]

Thanks for the help!

but I'm really disappointed in how hp neglects lower end laptops in terms of battery life

I've seen a lot of laptops on the internet that last well over 6 hours while streaming videos, like the xps 13,lg gram, even gaming laptops like the hp omen

I really hope hp fixes this issue and improves the batteries on laptops like mine since they are unbearable.