Early Adopters Suffer, but they probably deserve some sort of award for the testing services they provide.

Not all users have had the same success, however. Others report the only surefire solution was to have their MacBook Pro’s logic board replaced or have their system swapped out for one manufactured more recently. In these cases, the problems disappear completely, leading some to believe there is a hardware-related issue with an early batch of the notebooks.

From an AppleInsider article, Apple Investigating Graphics Issues On New Macbook Lines

I know somebody has to go out and buy the very first model of a brand new design. And those people do the rest of us a service.