A couple of questions about iCloud...

[itsjustmeee]

I currently have an iphone 4 and an ipad 2 running IOS 5 and a macbook pro with snow leopard. I would just like to have my mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, bookmarks and notes all syncing together, but from what I am understanding...

1. I HAVE to have Lion running on my macbook pro

and

2. more than 5 gigs of storage space. When I tried to turn on iCloud with the 2 devices above (and only the items listed syncing), I quickly ran out of space.

Is this correct and is iCloud just for Lion users with only 1 IOS device and selected items to sync like the ones I wanted?

 

[Beaverman3001]

I currently have an iphone 4 and an ipad 2 running IOS 5 and a macbook pro with snow leopard. I would just like to have my mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, bookmarks and notes all syncing together, but from what I am understanding...

1. I HAVE to have Lion running on my macbook pro

and

2. more than 5 gigs of storage space. When I tried to turn on iCloud with the 2 devices above (and only the items listed syncing), I quickly ran out of space.

Is this correct and is iCloud just for Lion users with only 1 IOS device and selected items to sync like the ones I wanted?

Those items aren't going to take up 5GB of space, you have backups enabled, that is taking up your space. Yes iCloud is Lion only for computer syncing.

 

[itsjustmeee]

Ah, so am I getting this confused with MobileMe sync? I believe that's what I need to enable.

 

[Beaverman3001]

Ah, so am I getting this confused with MobileMe sync? I believe that's what I need to enable.

If you are out of space you'll want to disable iCloud backups on each device and keep backing up your devices locally as normal (or buy more storage space) Syncing of bookmarks, contacts, notes, etc won't take up any space. But, 5GB is very small for backing up, especially on multiple devices.

 

[itsjustmeee]

It's interesting. I see now that I confused iCloud backup with MobileMe syncing of the 3 devices. But here's what's going on ... I log into my mobile me account just fine with the Find My iPhone app on both my iphone and ipad but when i put that same info in the MobileMe preferences on my macbook pro, it keeps telling me that "my MobileMe member name or password may be invalid". I can't figure out what the difference is.

 

[xraydoc]

It's interesting. I see now that I confused iCloud backup with MobileMe syncing of the 3 devices. But here's what's going on ... I log into my mobile me account just fine with the Find My iPhone app on both my iphone and ipad but when i put that same info in the MobileMe preferences on my macbook pro, it keeps telling me that "my MobileMe member name or password may be invalid". I can't figure out what the difference is.

I don't think you can use iCloud and MobileMe simultaneously.