Syncing the Address Book on multiple devices

Hi all...
I have a Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and an iPhone 3GS. As for now I've been syncing my iPhone with my Mac Pro at work but now I got myself a MacBook Pro also.
How do I get all my contacts in my Address Book synced with all 3 devices? I tried syncing my iPhone with the new MacBook Pro (just ticking off "Contacts" in the sync window) but even though it says it synchronizes the contacts no new contacts are added to the MacBook Pro???
I have OSX Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro (I'm not updating), OSX Lion on my MacBook Pro.
Please any advice on this so simple issue that Apple makes a mystery would be nice! And hopefully there is a clever solution making it simple to keep all 3 devices up to date even though the new information can be added on each one of them...  :-)
Thanks in advance!!
Toni
PS. And if there IS a clever solution for this, maybe there also is a way to sync all other stuff (pictures (iPhoto), music/video (iTunes)) on all 3 devices???

Like music, you can put it on any ipod touch/iphone/ipad you like

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