Devices - Mixed bag

My home has 4 devices: 2 iMacs and 2 iPhones, all happily sync'd using MobileMe. One iMac and 1 iPhone, are new enough to transition to Lion and iOS 5 - the other 2 are not. If I were to transition the 2 newer devices to iCloud, where am I left with respect to the syncronization of the 2 older devices and my Contacts/E-mail/Calender? Thanks.

     Thanks for responding j.wag. The article didn't exactly answer the question though. Verbiage like "may fail silently, or may give generic alert messages." says, 'it might work or it might not'. Syncronization, like life; it does or it doesn't. (Can't be a little bit dead, you know!)
     With iOS 5 out there for a bit, I'd though someone might have switched already and could tell me if the older devices are hung out to dry if they can't sync with iCloud. If so, looks as if the only resort would be to manually get the CAL and AB files to the older iMac, then use it's iTunes to cable sync the older iPhone.
     Muchos graćias,
     Jim C.

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