I would love one. Currently in between real laptops (long story, currently using a £200 15" craptop with debian XFCE) and I am genuinely puzzled what to do next

I would love one. Currently in between real laptops (long story, currently using a £200 15" craptop with debian XFCE) and I am genuinely puzzled what to do next. Macbook air (my last real laptop, 11") was awesome, but you have to upgrade the storage at the start (I learned the hard way). There's no option for a smallish SSD + big spinning data drive (which, in practise, turns out to be extremely useful.) I could break the bank and order the 500GB SSD, but then I get worried about longevity. Additionally, I'd have to live with Yosemite for the time being, which it seems is the Lion of this generation of OSs (much much slower than its predecessor). So I started looking at ThinkPads as the traditional Linux laptops. I met a guy in a coffee shop, literally yesterday, who was still running a 32-bit X200 and said he wouldn't change it for the world. Looking at the latest of that line (X240) I am tempted (especially by the NGFF SSD slot, and the much higher resolution) until I read the reviews everyone is posting about how awful the mac-style trackpad is. I love the apple touchpads, I actually own the bluetooth external one, but the USP of them is clearly their drivers. It sounds like the X240's trackpad is going to be even worse than my craptops, which at least has buttons! I've just had a look at the System76 brand, but their smallest device is a 14"-er! So no dice there. It would have two full HDD slots though, which would allow for some serious storage customisation... So what to do? At the moment I'm tempted by the X240, and being prepared to carry around a USB mouse in case it is impossible to hack that trackpad.