Moving .me to the iCloud on my Mac

I just took an iPhone4S workshop at an Apple Store and was told that no, I do not need to upgrade my Mac 10.6.8 from Snow Leopard to Lion in order to move .me to iCloud but everything I've read online says yes I do. Which is it?

nightingayle wrote:
I just took an iPhone4S workshop at an Apple Store and was told that no, I do not need to upgrade my Mac 10.6.8 from Snow Leopard to Lion in order to move .me to iCloud but everything I've read online says yes I do. Which is it?
Well they are correct. To "move" you only need to visit www.icloud.com.
The question is HOW you want to USE iCloud :
You can use it fully on your iOS5 device if this is the only device you want to backup data to the cloud.
But if you plan of syncing your Adressbook,Bookmarks,Mail,iCal across your iOS5 device and the Mac, then the Mac on the other side of the story MUST run nothing less then 10.7.2 Lion.
You can leave it at Snow and visit all times www.icloud.com to peek into your appointments that you done on the iphone , but that is not "syncing".
So in other words : 10.6.8 will not work together with icloud or only extremely limited dealing with Safari all the time. Especially no Bookmarks, no Photostreams - even if you run the latest iPhoto 11 version on Snow ( photostream will only be clickable in Lion ).

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