New to MacBook Air - need to set up emails

Hi all, I'm relatively new to apple software and have just purchased a MacBook Air (2008 I think) from a friend. I already have an iPhone and iPad which both seem to communicate fine between each other, but I now want to introduce the MacBook Air to them so that all 3 talk to each other and data / files transfer using the cloud, as my iPhone and iPad do already.......but I can't seem to figure out how.....?
Secondly, I am trying to set up my email account on my mac but again don't seem to be getting anywhere?
Any help would be much appreciated, feel free to ask me questions that might help you help me ;)
Regards
Stu

You are welcome, Stu.
If you are going to iCloud that must mean you have Lion or Mountain Lion on the Air.
We are all fellow users on here and happy to help each other out so feeel free to stick around and ask questions...and, as you get experience setting up this Air, help others with your knowledge. We like seeing new users learn and then feed that back to others, that is how we all got here.
Ralph

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