Vertical lines - problem on new macs?

I have about a 4 year old iMac. In this past year colored vertical lines started appearing on the screen, and they kept multiplying. I'm looking to buy a macbook or a macbook pro but I am worried that it will have the same problems. Has this issue been resolved?

Never had the problem on any of my Mac laptops.
17" 2.2GHz i7 Quad-Core MacBook Pro  8G RAM  750G HD + OCZ Vertex 3 SSD Boot HD 
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