Sync iCal on my Mac to iCloud

How do I sync my iCal on my Macbook to my iCloud account? OS 10.6.8. My iPhone and iTouch are both synced to iCloud, now I just want the same information to show up on my Macbook.

You can upgrade direct from 10.6.8 to 10.8 Mountain Lion without going through 10.7 Lion as long as you have the Mid 2010 White Unibody model 7,1.
Mountain Lion will require at least 2gb of RAM but really needs 4gb to run smoothly.
As for third party programs see this list for compatibility with 10.8 http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Also Mountain Lion doesn't run any Power PC programs. To see if you have any Power PC programs go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. When System Profiler comes up select Applications under Software. Then look under Kind to see if any of your applications are listed as Power PC. Universal and Intel will run under Mountain Lion.
Before Mac switched to Intel processors in 2006 they used Power PC processors from 1994 to 2005. Power PC 601 through 604, G3, G4 and G5. Applications written for the Power PC processors need the application called Rosetta to run on Intel processors. This was part of the Operating System in 10.4 and 10.5 but was an optional install in 10.6. With 10.7 Lion Apple dropped all support for Power PC applications.

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