Rev C iMac and dust accumulation

Hi Folks,
This is my first post and hope I'm doing this right.
My wife has 20" Rev B iMac and she loves it. But being a material girl, she really really wants a Rev C iMac. The kids will get her old one. The only thing I'm worrying about is dust accumulation, since it seems that you can't open a Rev C case. I open up her Rev B (and my PC desktop) about every 3 months and vacume and blow them out. I'm amazed at the amount of buildup we get so quickly. We live in a very dusty place and our cheap carpet sheds like a collie.
Any thoughts? Can you easily open a Rev C?
iMac Rev B, home made PC with Linux Mac OS X (10.4.3)

No, actually its all been flipped around. You will lay it down screen side up, and undo the screws and pop the front off, instead of the back. The screen is first, then there is a brown piece of heavy plastic between the back of the screen and the back of the internals.
But the thing is if youre looking for the fans to be like they were in Rev A and B, they are different now. The fans arent open like they were. Youll only see the very center of the fans now as shown here-->
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But i guess you can still blow it out. Another idea for y ou if you live in a dusty place is adding a piece of very thin cheese cloth or something to the vents under the screen. Cheese cloth is extremely small pored and will filter out even the smallest duct particals. Just cut urself a thiin, long piece and fasten it to the bottom using maybe a light glue on the edges. Just an idea. Could work for you tho.

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