Moving overseas - 24" imac. ship or trade in for a laptop? need advice.

Hi,
I am moving rom australia to canada in about 5 weeks.
My imac desktop is great and I would love to take it with me, but alas it is too big for carry on luggage :P
so i am running into problems of sending it through the post, which requires tracking and insurance and finding packaging as my kids went to town on the box it came in.
Or there are expensive pack and ship company fees, at the idea of mailing something for over $500 the idea of trading it in for a laptop came to me, But I am not sure what my computer is worth v how much a laptop would cost. how I would go about doing that? new or refurbished? how to tell if i was being ripped off or not. tranfering data, etc etc.
any advice?

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