The black macbooks DO flake/peel!
Today, to my great horror, I noticed that right above the isight the LCD bezel has begun to flake! It's very very small, but it looks like there is an extremely thin layer of translucent rubber coating on top of the black - it's more peeling than flaking, but looks just like the original pictures of the problem posted online. It's like thin dry skin flaking off.
If it starts peeling more, it will look very ugly. The reason it's probably peeling there is that it's right where I put my fingers to open the lid. Also, because it's the sharp edge of the LCD top part, there's natural friction that inevitably would result in peeling if there's a layer on top of the plastics.
What can I say? It was a short period of 99% perfection. I CAN'T BELIEVE APPLE COATED THESE WITH A SUPER THIN LAYER OF RUBBER! It's so stupid that it borders on the unbelievable.
MBP, Mac OS X (10.4.6)