icloud.com address?
Is there any advantage to using this new icloud.com address? Why would someone want to switch to it? I have an iMac running OS 10.6.8 and an iPad 2 running the OS 6.01.
iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
It's up to you. You are not required to do anything different.
From iCloud: Using your @icloud.com email address:
Note: No matter which address you choose to send email from, you will continue to receive all email sent to your @me.com, @mac.com, or @icloud.com email addresses directly in your iCloud inbox.