New Macbook 13" Display Corruption - Hard Reset Required

So there are a lot of people with issues with the new glossy Macbook screen. Lots of people have reported washed out colours, and sub par display quality.

Considering I'm an avid Macbook Pro fan, it's hard to move backwards in the world to a Macbook. I can't hack the resolution, and argh, why would ANYONE want a glossy finish to their LCD? Bring back matte (there's a slogan in that)!

Anyway, my biggest issue with the new Macbook (up until now) has been using the multi-touch trackpad, which serves three purposes: 1) it's a button 2) it provides movement 3) it does the funky spinning and enlarging of items in windows, thing. I just can't get the hang of it (and I'd fit myself quite snugly into the nerd category). It's probably just a "improves over time" thing, but my fingers keep getting tangled.

The other night something ghastly happened. My wife was using her Macbook, and she thought she was in the 1980's again. You know those old CRT TV's, the ones where you had to smack them on the side to correct the display every 20 or 30 minutes, when they were spitting static through the rear speaker dome? Well a similar thing happened. Check out the pics:




So my wife hard resetted the mac (heaven forbid!) [EDIT: twice - thanks for the clarification!], and everything was ok again. This is obviously some corruption in the display drivers, but errrk! That's TERRIBLE! Looking forward to downloading the first firmware update for the macbook 13". There's a few obvious things that need fixing.


The other thing that absolutely bugs me: out of the box OSX tries to log the current user out of their account after X seconds of inactivity. This is an absolutely stupid feature, and should be fixed up as part of the default build.

In summary:
There are obviously some teething issues with the new Macbook. I'm hoping that this is money well spent. Or should I trade it in for an old 15" Macbook Pro? I'll be watching the first couple of firmware/driver updates very carefully!


EDIT: Happened repeatedly today: 30/10/2008. I guess this is a hardware fault afterall. Time to call up and take this baby back to factory.



The new Macbook 13"

EDIT 2: After running apple diagnostics this was the result (31/10/2008 1pm):





Final:
Returning as Dead on Arrival. Apple Staff were helpful.

Lesson learned:

Don't buy your mac from the online apple store. It is MUCH better to get face to face contact with a sales rep, so that in a case similar to mine, you can go to the store and have it swapped over straight away by the Apple store or qualified Apple Reseller. They'd also do a harddrive copy as well, whereas in my scenario I'm gonna have to go and buy a big enough backup drive to do the backup myself and pay out of my own pocket and time to transfer everything over.