MBP 15" freezes with solid pink and green pixels running across display

This happens every time I boot the machine. Randomly the machine will freeze and the display will show pink and green diagonal pixels running through whatever application is open.
I'm guessing this is going to be a send back issue. Anybody know anything about this?
I've had the machine for less than 12 hours and this is my first mac. This is very discouraging. Earlier I was furious because it makes the machine totally unusable.

No, it's definitely not supposed to do that.
Seeing as you can't do much until tomorrow - a couple of things you could try;
a) check the ram is pushed all the way in.
b) Create a new user account - test - and see if it persists there.
b) If a and b doesn't work - try a full clean install of OSX. I once had a PB that did odd things out of the box but was ok after a clean install of OSX from a disc. I assumed the disc image was compromised.
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