It got stuck at the white screen, nada, nothing else displayed - left it for 5 minutes, nothing.
I held the power button in for a few seconds until it turned off, turned it on again and it booted normally...
Should I be worried?

Not unless it starts happening more then the once..

What had you done prior to turning it off? Had you just installed any updates from Apple?

I had just reset the internal hdd as the startup disk using system preferences - see this thread re why I did it.

I had actually rebooted again after resetting the startup disk, so I would have thought any issues would have been cleared.
Anyway, it was just a query, I will monitor the progress of future boot ups.

My MBP went weird this morning also, i'd clicked install later on safari yesterday or day before, when I woke up this morning there was another "install and restart" message box which I clicked. waited about an hour The windows update was in the dock but was not responding, my pointer was skipping on the screen a lot, and my clicks were taking 10-15 seconds to come through in the OS, istats showed the cpu wasn't busy.

Ended up force quitting the jammed updater and rebooting (which took some time with a randomly disappearing and unresponsive pointer). When it rebooted it seemed fine, I started update and had the 4-5 updates there, was no grey or green arrow next to safari but it was in the list. It installed 4 packages straight up (it had already downloaded them it seems and installed them in a matter of seconds), it restarted again and now every thing seems fine.. safari says 3.1

Anyway thats my first bad experience with OSX.


edit: lol I mean osx update (but in fairness since it was locked up it felt like windows)

Hmmm, I've had one more instance of freezing. Was ripping a DVD using MacTheRipper, came back about an hour later, pc was in kinda sleep mode except the power light was on solid and the monitor was on stand by. Only way to recover was to hold the power button in for a few seconds and reboot.
Not sure what the cause was, hasn't happened since and the boot up this morning was normal.

Mate i'd be taking it back as DOA or at least calling Apple. These things should not be happening and are not normal.

Problem is though (from an apple tech point of view)- can you consistently cause it to lock/ freeze?

Maybe post up some specs? and error logs?

How do you view the error logs?

Use Console.app

Thanks, found it.
If I have any more problems, I will post up some info - good to know where to look now.
Thanks all.