Syncing across devices without using mobileme

Hi, I use ical on my ipad for all my work and personal dates. I gather I need to pay for mobileme to sync across my ipad, iphone and macbookpro.  However, I thought mobileme was being discontinued and also, doesn't the cloud take care of all of that?
A subsidiary point is that I recently had to purchase a new hard drive and I've really lost confidence in having the laptop as my master for docs and trust the ipad far more.
Any thoughts please, from anyone?
Thanks - J.

Firstly, MobileMe is dead, and there is no question of paying for it.
Your signature says you have 10.6.6 - is this correct? If it isn't please correct it to prevent confusion. if it is, you should firstly get the 10.6.8 combo updater to get it as high as Snow Leopard will go.
If you want to use iCloud's full facilities you need to upgrade to Lion: this is $29.99 in the Mac App Store (which you will need 10.6.8 to access). Your Mac will need to meet the requirements:
Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
2GB of memory
OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
7GB of available space
and your iPad will need to be running iOS5.
If you have not migrated your MobileMe account to iCloud, go to http://me.com (on your Mac) and follow the link to migrate: you need to do so as a matter of urgency as we don't know for how much longer this will be possible.
That done, in theory you should be able to access your email in Mail at the same server settings, but this hasn't worked for everyone: you can set Mail up manually to access your iCloud email:
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard
Once migrated, your mail will also be available at http://icloud.com
Strictly speaking Snow Leopard cannot sync your calendars: there is an unsupported hack which has worked for some people.
If you can't, or don't want to, upgrade to Lion you might be interested in BusyCal, which is an iCal-like calendar application with extra facilities: it can sync with the iCloud Calendar while running on Leopard, Snow Leopard or Lion. A single user licence (two machines allowed) is $49.99.

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