ICloud Not Showing Up In System Preferences... Is it cause I'm not running OS Lion?

I am not provided the iCloud option in my System Preferences.
Is this because I'm not running OS Lion?
Or...?

Exactly so. 10.7.2 is required for Lion. Snow Leopard cannot connect to it; you can enter the mail server settings manually in Mail and there is an unsupported hack which allows you to sync calendars and which may or may not be reliable: and of course you can access your data online at icloud.com, but not sync it to your Mac.

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