Playing with find my iphone

I installed find my iphone on my 4s ios6, and it found my MBP with 10.7. It was looking for my ipad but it was turned off. A couple questions though
Why wasnt it looking for my Imac? What OSX do I need on my Imac for it to work? I assume newer than what I have, but along that logic why was it looking for my ipad which i think barely has ios5. Why wasnt it looking for my Imac which is running 10.6
Also playing with it, I pressed "lock" for my MBP and it gave a warning about "a locked mac cant be wiped." I wanted to see what the process would be. Can I easilly unlock the MBP with my pin I entered in FMIp? That warning made me not want to procede (im a chicken)

If you're running Lion I believe you should be able to use Find my Mac, at least, I have my Lion MBP setup. Here are the step instructions for the Mac:
Set up Find My iPhone on a Mac
On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click iCloud.If you’re asked to sign in, enter your Apple ID, or if you don’t have one, click “Create an Apple ID,” then follow the instructions that appear.
Select the Find My Mac checkbox, then confirm that you want to allow Find My iPhone to use the location of this Mac.Tip:  For added security, make sure your user account requires a password and that automatic login is turned off in Users & Groups preferences. For more information, choose Help > System Preferences Help.
And with regards to seting the passcode Apple says this:
"Important:  If you lock your Mac, you may no longer be able to use Find My iPhone to locate it, and you won’t be able to erase it remotely. Also, if you forget your passcode, or if you set an EFI firmware password on your Mac before it was lost, then remotely lock it and later find it, you may need to take it to an authorized repair center to unlock it."
So... Locking the device would make it impossible to do a remote wipe. But, if you were to find the Mac, you could simply enter in the passcode you created and the device will unlock and you can continue using it without any issues.

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