2011 MBA is snappier than 2011 MBP QC I7?

Ive got a 2011 MBA with 4gb ram running Ventura and graphics are super snappy, not much installed as its only 64gb but works great

Just picked up an early 2011 quad core I7 with 8gb ram, and 1gb AMD 6750M and I put a SSD in it, and it's very laggy still.

like doing the app exposé it stuttery - I turned off everything I can think of similar to the MBA, window tinting, ect.

The MBA is nice and smooth. I turned on auto graphic switching but that seems to make worse.

only other difference is MBA is on Ventura, vs Sonoma for MBP. but I cant see that a Quad 2.2 would be outpaced by a dual core i5 with 1/2 the memory just because of 1 software revision? is Sonoma that bad for 2011?

Author: @slvrscoobie