Macbook Pro right handside fan

Hello. Did anyone know that the new 2011 macbook pro 13-inch have any right hand fan?

Remove the hard drive or
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the boot drive to a external Disk Utility HFS+ Journaled formatted external USB 2 or Firewire drive (equal or larger in size) the external drive will be "hold option bootable" so you can boot and restore later after your machne is repaired.
Remove your sensitive data from the hard drive first to a external drive, then hold c and boot off the installer disk that comes with your comptuer.
Under the utilities menu is Disk Utility, select your drive and Erase > format HFS+ Journaled > Security option > Zero (or 7 or insane 35x overwrite) and wait a hour to 7 hours to insane 3 days for it to finish.
When it's done, quit and reinstall OS X from the installer. all your sensitive data is gone and the operating system (with nothing in it) will be the result.
You can take the machine in now.
If you have a SSD, then forget the erase proceedure, it won't work, you need to remove it.
If you don't want Apple to fix it. Take a look at iFixit.com for parts and tools you can replace the fan yourself.

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