What JRE/JDK are you using on each system?
I noticed on another application I adminster (not a B4X application) slowed down considerably when the vendor switched from Oracle JDK to Open JDK.
Also, why dont you add some logging to see what is taking so long during start up.
I'm surprised you get 1 second launch times. I have a new laptop (32gb RAM, Ryzen 5, SSD, 1060 GTX) and any B4X UI app I launch takes around 3-5 seconds.