Tumbleweed upgrades perfectly on older Hardware: 60°C Idle Temperature on freshly installed Leap-15.4 KDE on a Lenovo Thinkpad W530 Notebook.
root: ~
# inxi -zFmy222
System: Kernel: 6.13.7-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/1 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250324
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2447K70 v: ThinkPad W530 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 2447K70 serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: G5ET96WW (2.56 ) date: 11/27/2013
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 67.1 Wh (98.4%) condition: 68.2/93.6 Wh (72.9%)
Memory: System RAM: total: 32 GiB available: 31.17 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (4.1%) igpu: 64 MiB
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 4 modules: 4 EC: None
Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
Device-3: ChannelB-DIMM0 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
Device-4: ChannelB-DIMM1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
CPU: Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-3740QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1200 min/max: 1200/3700 cores: 1: 1200 2: 1200 3: 1200 4: 1200 5: 1200 6: 1200 7: 1200 8: 1200
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Bison ThinkPad Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: unspecified server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 tty: 236x54 resolution: 1600x900
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast platforms: gbm,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.2 note: console (EGL sourced) renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2), llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 256 bits)
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 drivers: N/A surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio: Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.13.7-1-default status: kernel-api
Network: Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wwp0s20u4i6 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 74.83 GiB (16.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 231.56 GiB used: 74.8 GiB (32.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda4
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 545 MiB used: 27.5 MiB (5.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: /home size: 231.56 GiB used: 74.8 GiB (32.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda4
ID-4: /opt size: 231.56 GiB used: 74.8 GiB (32.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda4
ID-5: /var size: 231.56 GiB used: 74.8 GiB (32.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda4
Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0
Info: Processes: 234 Uptime: 1d 13h 58m Init: systemd Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.37
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