Display Flicker and Screen Die Outs Randomly

I bought the MacBook Pro with Retina Display and all good stuff, however, it is giving bad flicker problem and screens seems to die suddently at times. I have to shut off the computer and then turn it on again....
This is sad and annoying problem. After paying $3500 for a computer, this is painful.
Can Apple fix this problem easily? Why is Apple not contacting customers and offer to fix this issue?

The most obvious next-step solution I'm trying to avoid in trouble shooting is a clean install...that takes me down for a 1 full day, plus 2-3 days rebuilding my application preferences, plugins, serialization of sofware, etc. (I know I can use the migration assistant, but don't want to "migrate" the trouble back in to a clean system.)
In a Mac Pro, you should have a Boot Drive with only System, Library, Applications, and the hidden unix files including paging/swap. All user files (which includes preferences) should be moved to another drive.
Establishing a Boot Drive is one of the best Speedups you can give your multi-drive Mac. It stops the incessant "snacking" of the system from wrecking data Reads and Writes.
Once you have a Boot Drive, you can switch to a different one (temporarily or permanently) in a few minutes.

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