Can't get icloud on my setting preferences?

I'm keen to link my mca book pro, and the imac at home with icloud.  I've done software updates + rebooted the machines, but under the apple 'setting preferences' it doesn't give me icloud as an option to choose under 'internet & wireless'.
Help - how do I get it listed?

You need to be running 10.7.5 Lion to get the basic iCloud and 10.8 Mountain Lion to get the full iCloud.
While 10.7.5 will allow you to access iCloud you will be limited unless you can upgrade to 10.8 Mountain Lion.
This is from Apple Support:
Minimum operating system requirements
You may also use iCloud with the following operating system versions:
Mac
OS X Lion v10.7.5 or later*
* Note: Although you can use OS X Lion as noted above, you will not
be able to take advantage of some iCloud features, such as Shared Photo Streams, iCloud Tabs, Find My iPhone Lost Mode, Documents in the Cloud for iWork, and Find My Friends location-based alerts.

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