I bought a refurbished Lenovo X301 laptop. On a replete charge I gain around 3 work time of freestyle life?

Well you don't know if the battery is new Or not, unless you effort it out.
You can carry 5hours freestyle life by lowering the screen brightness.
There is a way of tracking your battery property, regularly written At the posterior of it where the Information about the battery is. Look around it carefully and read as or paste me a envision against the quiz so i can see.

My battery said 04/07 which means, it was built within April 2007 and it is starting to degrade after around 2years cause i looked At the date i got it. It shows you however good i took care of the freestyle. Not secure how many cycles i've done, between 400 - 450 i feel. I never used it alot. It's starting to degrade now.

Well there are ways to extend the battery time in the laptop such as, using the Wireless Network can drain the battery or the paticular tasks your doing etc.