laptop battery capacity

[Nathan England]

I realize batteries lose capacity over time, but this seems rediculous to me 
as I have never had a laptop battery go as fast as the current one. I have 
only owned Dell laptops in the past and the batteries have lasted plenty long, 
but this HP is killing me! Just over a year old and the battery is less than 
half the capacity at full charge!!! Hardinfo says:

2592 mAh / 6000 mAh (43.20%)


Yikes!!!

Isn't there anything that can be done to force a fuller charge ? this sucks!

nathan