New Macbook Pro 15in Late 2013 - Crashing on Maverick

Seen a couple post on it.  I just bought this laptop Macbook Pro 15in only two weeks ago...I have heard that there has been some people saying the same thing.  Any news?
Info from EtreCheck
[quote]
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,3
          1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          16 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel Iris Pro - VRAM: 1024 MB
          NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 2048 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
          AirPlay: Version: 1.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
System Software:
          OS X 10.9 (13A3017) - Uptime: 0 days 0:0:51
Disk Information:
          APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500.28 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.42 GB (468.73 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
Launch Agents:
User Launch Agents:
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          uTorrent
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player
Internet Plug-ins:
          Default Browser.plugin
          Flash Player.plugin
          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
          nplastpass.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
          None
Time Machine:
          Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
               1%          WindowServer
               1%          EtreCheck
               1%          hidd
               0%          ps
               0%          coreservicesd
               0%          lsboxd
               0%          SystemUIServer
               0%          PhotoStreamAgent
               0%          identityservicesd
               0%          System Events
Top Processes by Memory:
          147 MB   com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          98 MB    Dock
          82 MB    WindowServer
          66 MB    Finder
          66 MB    CalendarAgent
          49 MB    gamed
          49 MB    NotificationCenter
          49 MB    com.apple.dock.extra
          49 MB    SystemUIServer
          49 MB    PhotoStreamAgent
Virtual Memory Statistics:
          13.03 GB           Free RAM
          1.71 GB  Active RAM
          344 MB   Inactive RAM
          944 MB   Wired RAM
          163 MB   Page-ins
          0 B      Page-outs
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Yea I am not sure...I have had this Laptop on November 2nd...The problems started about two weeks after.  Has anyone else had the issue that you know of?
It has given me the grey error message of system crash it will restart.  It is the LATEST Macbook Pro 15in High End Model with 16 GB RAM.

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