ICloud, Contacts and MacBook Pro

Please help. My Iphone, IPAD and MacBook Pro are all IOS 5. All my contacts are in Icloud (having been synced from the IPAD) - how do I transfer them from Icloud onto my MacBook Pro lap top - there must be a way??
Many thanks

Thank you - sorry I should have said that the MacBook Pro is new and I have assumed that it has the up to date software on it. It is the IPhone and IPad that has the IOS 5 software. I am really struggling to sync the 3 sets of data with the IPad having the most up to date.
Many thanks for taking the time to reply.

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