Scan lines appearing, screen becomes unuseab;e

Ok, Hi.
First off, It’s been a long time (nigh on 7 years) since I used a mac laptop last, so I just wanted to make sure that it’s not something I’m doing wrong. I just bought a brand spanking new Alu macbook online which arrived yesterday. Considering how much the thing cost I really AM hoping I’m doing something wrong. Anyway, there are points where the display appears to “White out”. It fills with what look like vertical scan lines and fades to white. Before filling the screeen with them, making it impossible to see. It looks kind of like a loose connection that I used to get on one of the really old models. Is there anything I can do, or do I have to go and get my brand new laptop replaced on it’s second day?

Unfortunately, it sounds like you got a bad one. It will need to go back to Apple.

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