The MacBook Pros don't use mechanical spinning hard drives at all. They use high performance PCIe Solid State Drives that are far faster than any mechanical drive could ever be.
The Macs have a screen with 2560-by-1600 native resolution at 227 pixels per inch. The point of the Touch Bar is to make it so you don't need a touch screen to smear with finger prints, and develop Popeye arm, holding your arm at a non-ergonomic position.
What you say is the better choice has only a FOUR HOUR BATTERY LIFE compared to the MacBook Pro's TEN HOUR BATTERY LIFE. . . and to get that starting price it has only 8GB of RAM, a much slower processor, and it runs Windows 10 HOME edition! That's pathetic.
Apple Customers Revolt over New MacBook That iPhone Cant Connect to Without Adapter
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/28/apple-customers-revolt-over-new-macbook-that-iphone-cant-connect-to-without-adapter/