So having done the basic setup of the laptop, I used powertop to check the power consumption.
With my current setup and using an external USB stick for WiFi, I get the following result:
Powertop indicates over 8 hours of battery life which is in line with the official estimated battery life of 7.5 hours.
Of course, this is for light browsing and I expect that with heavier work, realistic battery life may be more in the 5-7 hour range.
Just as an update, after replacing the wifi card so that I no longer used the power hungry USB wifi dongle, the discharge rate dropped to around 5W.
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