Can I keep Snow Leopard on my iMac and use Lion on my new powerbook and have my iPhone 3 synked to both?

I just got a new powerbook with Lion and I want to have my calendar and contacts and photos shared on all three. Can I do that without upgrading my powerbook to Lion and using the clowd? I like the idea of Clowd but there are some programs I can't run in Lion that will go away if I upgrade that I want to keep using. Any sugestions?

You can keep Snow Leopard on your iMac, but you would need to install Lion on another partition to use iCloud since it is not available for Snow Leopard. As for iCloud maybe the following will help you:
iCloud Help
Creating an iCloud account- Frequently Asked Questions
Apple IDs and iCloud
iCloud: Features that work with one account at a time on iOS 5 and OS X
iCloud: Backup and restore overview

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