Paint chipping off?

So, my Macbook is just over a year old and I've had some problems all year long. First, my enterkey didn't function all of a sudden, and they replaced the entire keyboard and lower encasing.
Then, the lights on my macbook didn't function, lights like the battery-indicator, the shift-key-light... Again they replaced the entire lower part of my computer. This was all under waranty.
Now my MBP just fell out of the waranty-zone, and it seems like the edge near the trackpad is starting to chip off? I didn't even know the MBP are painted, aren't they supposed to be made out of one solid block of aluminium?
It's like black tiny dots, and it feels kind of rough too.
What should I do?

Thomas A Reed wrote:
How exactly do you sand pits out of a piece of aluminum?
Don't sand the pits out, just the rough edges so when one's hand or finger brushes over it so it's smooth to the touch.
There's nothing you can to do remove scratches or pits without affecting the finish of the surrounding area
The pits can be filled and any rough edges can be buffed without affecting the surrounding area with the proper tool and attachments.
Color matching with fill material will be the hardest part.
Just because you tend to think it can't doesn't make it so. Put a buffing head on one of these.
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Black MacBook's paint flaking off?

There are some buzz about the black paint flaking off from the MacBook.
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but with all the problems I've been
reading about, I'm really tempted to wait for a
while... what with flaking of the black macbook,
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Dude! Remember where you are. This is a support site. That means if anything goes wrong, people come here for help. But people who are happy and content with their computers don't come here.
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