Best way to set up iCloud on a shared MAC

My wife and I share a MacBook Pro on Lion, with one user serving us both. But we have separate apple ids, used for iTunes and for logging in to Apple Support discussions. We do not use iCloud presently. In preparation for Mountain Lion, I am considering turning on iCloud in system preferences. It is possible or advisable for us to have two iCloud accounts? I ask that because she has exclusive use of our one iPad and I have exclusive use of our one iMac. Since iCloud facilitates sharing of data among devices, is there any reason to have one iCloud account synching the MBP and the iPad, and another synching the MBP and my iMac?

My wife and I had our own Apple ID's from before we met. We wanted to keep these but also wanted to revel in the functionality of iCloud.
Consequently, we created a "Shared" icloud ID and put this in our iPhones, iPad and iMac... then we use our individual Apple ID's in the store.
So,
iMac = store: whoever is using it / icloud: [email protected] ID.
Her iPhone = store: [email protected] / icloud: [email protected]
My iPhone = store: [email protected] / icloud: [email protected]
Our iPad = store: whoever is using it / icloud: [email protected]
This means we can photostream, share calendars, contacts, reminders etc... but then still purchase music and apps to our own taste for our own individual devices.
This works exceptionally well for us as a model. However, having just watched the "Mountain Lion" video and seeing that you sign-in once with things like Facebook etc.. I'm not sure how this will work... it's kind of like a push towards us each having our own mac. Which is unlikely to ever happen. So I'll play it by ear moving forward.
Hope this helps.

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