Yeah, really! They should provide options to ship with the best SSD options available, even if it has to come at a premium price.
They need to let the market decide.
They need to let the market decide.
Why not make one of everything like Dell and let the market decide?
Offering the _best_ of everything is. So shipping a crappy SSD is dumb. (Personally I strongly suspect it's because they can get closer to that 100% hardware markup they love on a lower-end model, than because it's greener. But I'm sure "green" sounds better.)
But seriously, when was the last time an Apple computer has the fastest CPU? Or the largest laptop screen. Or anything with a card reader. Or blue ray... Just pointing out that they are entirely willing to avoid the absolute top of the line and have done so consistently.
Maybe it's a margin thing as you say, I don't know...