Will Mountain Lion work on my laptop?

I have an early 2011 13-inch Macbook Pro, currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I have heard of similar models installing ML but running really hot and the fans going crazy. Is this an issue that has been sorted out? I'm interested in ML but i'll pass if it's going to mean my computer will run significantly worse.
Thanks.

I don't understand what you mean about putting an image on my Time Machine backups. Could you explain further?
I always say the more back ups you have the better. Keep your Time Machine back up as already suggested. But on another separate USB drive use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to make an image, or an exact bit for bit copy of your laptop's drive, which would be a separate bootable copy of your laptop's internal drive. With Startup Disk in System Preferences or by holding the Option key on boot up you can select the drive you want to boot too. Now if anything goes drastically wrong with your install you can boot it up with the external drive with the image. Both software will allow you to copy that image back to the laptops drive if necessary as well.
Kind of "belt and suspenders", you may never need you back ups, but they are there if you need them.

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