On iOS if an app remains in the background for over ~30 seconds, it gets killed.

So, you can't really compare. On iOS you can have 3GB of RAM and it wouldn't be a bottleneck.

I mean at that point (13 GB memory used), the "Swap used" is at several hundred megabytes.

And if I more apps (or browser tabs), the "Swap used" keeps increasing, and the "memory pressure" graph switches color from green to yellow.

The color of that graph is the indicator I'm using to know that I should close my browser tabs :p

In macOS 15 there are two metrics: "Memory used" and "Cached Files"

I'm specifically talking about "Memory used" here.

In fact, on my 16GB mac, if I open apps that use ~8GB of RAM (on top of the 5GB I mentioned earlier), it starts swapping.

You forgot an important difference: the macbook neo has the A18 Pro chip (2 performance cores + 4 efficiency cores) whereas the macbook air has the M5 chip (4 performance cores + 6 efficiency cores)

Also the A18 Pro chip has a 5-core GPU whereas the M5 chip has 8 or 10.

Personally, the only dealbreaker in the list you posted is the amount of RAM. macOS 15 uses ~5GB on startup without any app open. I'd be swapping all the time on 8GB of RAM.

Future Motorola devices (or maybe a subset of them?) will support GrapheneOS

> We're collaborating on future devices

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116159602850585685