The Pine Mountain has + size tires which will help soften things up being a rigid but it will still feel like a rigid. It obviously has better specs overall due to them saving a lot of money on the fork. If you are just taking it easy on normal trails it will be fine. Once you start hitting rougher things you may regret not have a suspension. It is going to climb better if you are doing a lot of that being a 10 speed with that extra wide range sunrace cassette, can't go any wider than what the tokul already has on the 9 speed setup.

The tokul's big advantage is of coarse the suspension fork but it isn't a good one. Nothing under $1000 at a LBS anyway is going to come with a good suspension fork unless you get really lucky on a left over. If you are hitting rougher things or like going fast down hill then even that not so good fork will really come in handy.

Here is one big not so obvious PRO with the pine mountain. While the pine mountain has a rigid fork it has a tapered steerer so later on down the road you could always put a suspension fork on it. The tokul while it already has a suspension fork on it it has a straight steerer which makes upgrading the fork down the road to something good much harder too impossible. 27.5ers came around when tapered steerers were already the norm so nobody really bothered to make straight steerer forks for 27.5ers except in the lowend.

I wouldn't limit yourself to just 1x drivetrain setups stock. If you want a 1x setup all you have to do is remove the FD stuff and pop a narrow wide chaingring on your crank and bam you have a 1x setup.