Trading in Mac Desktop for Macbook Air

Does anyone have experience with Apple's recycling/buy back program?  I purchased a Mac desktop about a year and a half ago and am looking to sell it and purchase a Macbook Air in its place.  The desktop is in immaculate condition.  My family rarely uses the desktop and I probably should have purchased a laptop in the first place (that hindsight is always 20/20!). 
A few questions:
1)  Does the Macbook Air have the same capabilities as the desktop?  Our use on the computer is pretty standard: drafting word documents/spreadsheets, web browsing and utilizing iTunes and iPhoto.
2)  What's our best bet to receive maximum payment for our desktop?  Selling it privately via Craig's List/Facebook or Apple's recycling/buy back program?
3)  Will I even get back the money to make this "swap" worthwhile?

Modern Outpost is coming out with a MacBook 12V DC car adaptor, and are hoping to add an Air adaptor in the near future...
http://modernoutpost.blogspot.com/
I see the comments about using an AC Inverter, but I prefer to speak about solutions that will work with solar chargers too. An AC inverter will not only NOT work from a solar panel without extra & heavy equipment, but it wastes more than 20-40% of your power... first it converts your battery power to dirty household AC, then your Apple adaptor converts it back to DC for your Mac.
I suggest using a DC adaptor and bypass the middleman.
Modern Outpost's website has nothing posted yet...
http://www.modernoutpost.com

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