I have a MacBook Pro, and AppleTV, and an iPhone 4s. I'm not too familiar with iCloud, but I know it can benefit me
I know that iCloud could be hugely beneficial to me, but I'm not sure I understand everything about it.
I keep all of my music, TV shows, movies, podcats, etc. on a seperate hard drive. I have entire series of a TV show (complete with 9 seasons) that I bought from iTunes, so needless to say they take up quite a bit of space. For that reason, I moved all of my media files to my separate hard drive to make sure my MacBook Pro would have less memory and space used and run smoother. All of my music is on there as well. I also have my entire music library on my iPhone 4s (not all of the tv shows, obviously). I can automatically play my TV shows on my AppleTV simply by going to my purchased TV shows. I know that with all of the media I have, using iCloud would benefit me greatly, but I'm just really confused about the entire concept. If someone would be so kind as to lay it out for me so that I understand it's functions, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Good starting point: http://www.apple.com/icloud/
Detailed examination of iCloud facilities (in relationship to Mobileme but you can ignore those bits):
http://rfwilmut.net/icloud
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