Can I create an icloud account on a pc to use later on a mac?

Hello again,
  Here's the situation. I bought a new iMac today but won't have a chance to set it up for another couple of days. My wife and I each have our individual icloud accounts. We'd like to set up a third icloud account for email only, no itunes etc ... This new icloud email address will be the one for family and friends. My question is this: Can I set up a new icloud account on my pc now and just enter the information into the new iMac during the initial set up? If so, can I do this by going to icloud.com? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Mike

Mannheim62 wrote:
Thanks for responding and answering my question. If we decided to use my wife's icloud account as our primary, is there a way to "not sync" the incoming email with her iphone and ipad? That would simplify things greatly because she doesn't read any of her email on her iphone or ipad.
If you don't want to sync the iCloud email account on her devices, all you would need to do is go to Settings>iCloud on her devices and turn Mail off.  This would remove the email account from her devices but would leave any other iCloud syncing services that you want to use with the account in place.

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