Can't upgrade to 10.7.5, can't use iCloud

Hi there, I recently got a new iPhone 4 and wanted to use iCloud on it. Unfortuanatly, I cannot upgrade my computer to 10.7 and can't use iCloud because I am stuck on 10.6.8. Is there anyway to use iCloud on Snow Leopard? If not, is there a way to upgrade to lion on an Intel Core Duo iMac WITHOUT ROARING CORE. And if there is not a way to use the Snow Leopard MobileMe preferance pane to substatute for iCloud? Please let me know as soon as possible.
Thanks

The MobileMe preference pane is completely useless. You can't connect your Mac to iCloud to do the full range of syncing and other facilities. You can make limited use of an existing iCloud account:
You will be able to access email and calendars on the iCloud website at http://icloud.com provided your browser is reasonably up-to-date (the current Snow Leopard version of Safari works OK, and the latest version of FireFix runs on Snow Leopard).
You will not be able to sync contacts or bookmarks from a pre-Lion Mac.
You will be able to enter the server settings for email manually in the Mail application and access your email. A pictorial instruction page on doing this is here.
You will not be able to sync your calendars directly.
Some people have been able to set up calendar syncing by using the method detailed here - this is an unsupported hack and may not be reliable, and may stop working at some future point. (See below for alternatives.)
Address Book won't sync: this page has a convoluted hack to make it sync which has been reported as working (and as not working by others). I've not tried it. (See below for an alternative.)
There are a couple of alternative syncing services you might like to consider, though they're not particularly cheap:
Soho Organizer can sync Calendars and Contacts with iCloud on Snow Leopard. A single user licence (multiple machines allowed) is $99.99.
Fruux syncs Calendars, Tasks and Contacts between a wide variety of devices (not using the iCloud server) including Snow Leopard and above, Windows Outlook and Thunderbird, Linux Thunderbird, and iOS and Android devices - see their compatibility chart(click the blue 'i' for a caveat about Snow Leopard). It's free for one user, two shares, two devices; above that pricing starts at $20 per month.
(I have no connection with these firms and have not tried their products, though both have had good reports.)

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