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Nov 28, 2010
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Coconut Battery, System Profiler > Power and iStat Pro.
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This should answer most, if not all, of your battery questions:
Apple Notebook Battery FAQ by GGJstudios
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Also have a look at Activity Monitor (Applications / Utilities /) and select All Processes and sort by CPU to see what the culprit may be.

image below uses sorting by CPU as an example
Acitivty_Monitor.png

Further reading:
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