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I upgraded to Lion for my macbook pro and Ios5 on my ipad/iphones. All was good. HOWEVER,I am going CRAZY trying to figure out why my laptop is not recognized in iCloud!!! I moved over my mobile me account, turned it on on my ipad and iphone but when I try to go into settings on my mac and click on the cloud and enter my apple id, it tells me that it recognizes my id but it's not set up in the cloud. Then, I get a link that sends me to the "how to set it up" but it never ever ever addresses my problem. I can access it in icloud, but I still prefer to use my email from the desktop instead of through my webrowser. My mail servers are disabled and I can't go in and put a new one (the field for that is unselectable/writable).
I am just really frustrated.
Lynn

Lyn,
A couple of things, first is you need to run Software Update on the MBP to get Lion 10.7.2. Then you can use the iCloud Setup Guide to learn how to setup iCloud.
Next this is an Intel iMac forum, please post to the correct forum in the future.
Last please complete your profile, you don't state what version of OS X is on your MBP.

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