New Laptop - Charge Battery first? (URGENT)

[Mad Genius1]

Well I am off to college tomorrow morning and my new laptop arrived yesterday. I haven't had time to set it up til now and I remember someone telling me that before using it I should charge up the battery for a few hours. Anyone know if this is true/false? If not, can I just fire it up right away? I need to get a few things transferred from this computer to that one before tomorrow morning.

Thanks.