MacBook Display is Dead

Just barely got my MacBook last night. Wanted to take it to work with me today, so I left it on through-out the night copying music. When I got up this morning the screen was black, which I assumed was just from going into sleep. But I can't get it to come back on. I've completely turned it off several times, but when I turn it back on it is still black. Caps Lock and Num Lock don't like up when pressed either. It seems completely unresponsive. I'm hoping this is just my lack of understanding since I am very new to Macs. Any suggestions?

I would suggest that you politely insist on a replacement rather than a repair. If you agree to a repair, it will probably take a couple of weeks, and you also lose your rights to demand a replacement for any other problems - you would have to send it for repair again (I could be wrong, but I believe that Apple's policy is that if you agree to a repair, you lose any rights to a replacement). This is a brand new machine that cost you a lot of money, and you have the right to have one that works straight out of the box without need for a repair. There will always be a bad apple (excuse the pun) in any manufacturing run, and these are wonderful machines, so don't let your bad experience so far put you off. I also recommend asking for a replacement rather than going for a repair because I had the display on an old Toshiba die on me. I paid for it to be repaired (it was out of warranty), and three months later (once the repaired part was out of warranty) it died on me again. Wouldn't want this to happen to you.

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