I am thrilled to report – two of the three biggest oddities with my new MBP have been Fixed! The first was compatibility with a Dell external display. The second was track-pad behavior in which the track-pad would not respond or would not execute a click to change context between windows and applications.
The remaining buzz-kill is the fact that the system doesn’t not properly sleep. When you shut the top to go home, assuming your system will happily go to sleep until tomorrow you come back to find your system dead and needing boot from scratch. This even happens sometimes when you sleep manually. Very frustrating and a real pain, as I have become accustomed to my Macs doing the right thing. Hopefully this will be fixed soon too.