If you’ve been looking for a way to get the latest gear from Logitech, but don’t have enough cash in your account to cover the Logitech MX Mouse or a new Harmony remote, head over to see what you can get for your old gear in the Logitech Trade in Program.

The good part about the Logitech Trade in program is that it’s free and no matter how old your Logitech items, all Logitech cares about is what types of items you are sending in. The other nice thing is that you get your reward instantly.

The bad part is that your reward is a 20% off coupon, not a price for your specific item. This means that you are getting a steal if you recycle a broken or older accessory, but not so much if you just have an extra Harmony remote or MX mouse that still works.

Our advice is to use this program with older items, or those things you really want recycled and sell the other Logitech accessories at a gadget recycler, Craigslist or eBay.

What happens to your Logitech trade ins? According to the program’s website,

CeXchange, our recycling partner, provides a service that meets the highest environmental standards. When possible they will refurbish the products so they can be repurposed and reused. For items where that is not possible they will be recycled in accordance with all state and federal environmental regulations

Restrictions on Logitech trade ins:

• This program only applies to Logitech products.
• It is currently valid for private individuals living in the U.S.
• This offer can be changed or discontinued at any time.
• This offer does not replace any of the on-going recycling and environmental compliance initiatives in which Logitech participates

have you participated in teh Logitech Trade in program? What do you do with old accessories? Personally we like to have a backup mouse around the house.

Logitech Trade in and Trade Up Program Offers 20% Off New Logitech Gear is a post by Josh Smith from Notebooks.com.

HP Home is offering a deal on the HP Pavilion dv7t 17.3″ consumer laptop for President’s Day with up to $245 off and a stackable HP Coupon Code that takes another $30 off the price. After discounts the dv7t starts at $619 and can be configured to suit your needs.

The HP Pavilion dv7t is available with Core i3 or Core i5 processors from Intel, a free upgrade to 6GB RAm and a free upgrade to a 500GB hard drive. The 17.3″ display has a 1600 x 900 resolution and sports a HP Truevision Webcam and integrated microphone. The HP Pavilion dv7t can be configured with discrete graphics cards from ATI with up to 1GB of video RAM for those looking to game.

The HP Pavilion dv7t can also be configured with a Blu-Ray drive and Bluetooth, it comes standard with Intel Wireless N. The standard 6 cell battery is rated for 5 hours.

Additional discounts and upgrades for the HP dv7t President’s Day Sale include;

• $20 off Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student
• Free Upgrade to Norton Internet Security(TM) ($29 Savings)
• Plus Save up to 30% Instantly on Accessory Bundles

The HP Pavilion dv7t starts at $619 after the $100 discount and can be dropped to $549 with the $30 off HP Coupon Code SAVE30HP. This deal ends on February 26th.

HP Pavilion dv7t Base Specs:

• black cherry
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-370M Dual Core Processor (2.40 GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) + Intel(R) HD Graphics
• 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• FREE Upgrade to 500GB 5400RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• No Additional Office Software
• No additional security software
• 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (standard) – Up to 5.25 hours of battery life +++
• 15.6″ diagonal High Definition LED HP Brightview Widescreen Display (1366×768)
• SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
• HP TrueVision Webcam and Digital Microphone
• Intel Wireless-N Card
• Standard Keyboard

President’s Day Deal: HP Pavilion dv7t up to $245 Off + $30 Off Coupon is a post by Josh Smith from Notebooks.com.

Apple hasn’t announced its Black Friday deals yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a great deal from Apple.com on a MacBook Pro. We just spotted a very well configured refurbished 15″ MacBook Pro for just $1,469. This MacBook Pro’s original price was $1,999, which means you’ll save $530 or 23%.

Apple completely tests and certifies all refurbished MacBook Pros. They are indistinguishable from new stock as they’re held to even higher quality standards than new MacBook Pros. Apple spares no expense in refurbishing units that are returned for one reason or another, even if there’s no apparent wear at first glance. Because of Apple’s relatively restrictive return policy, these machines are barely used. In fact, some Apple employees have explained to us that MacBook Pros must go through the refurb certification process even if the box appears unopened when a customer returns it, just in case. Apple often replaces the entire exterior of its refurbished products before repackaging them.

Apple’s refurbished products carry a full one year warranty and are eligible for Apple Care for up to three years of protection.

At $1,469, this 15″ MacBook Pro is a viable alternative to a 13″ MacBook Pro with much less power. If you plan on editing a lot of videos, playing video games or performing processor-intensive tasks, you’ll be better suited with a more powerful processor and a larger display. It’s not as mobile as the 13″ MacBook Pro however. It’s also not the most current 15″ MacBook Pro. The latest generation of 15″ MacBook Pros come with Intel Core processors and start at $1,799.

The $1,496 MacBook Pro comes with the following specs:

15.4-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display

4GB memory

320GB Hard Drive

8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

SD card slot

Built-in 7-hour battery

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 256MB

Illuminated keyboard

Visit Apple.com to get this deal. Read more about Black Friday deals here.

Black Friday: 15″ MacBook Pro 2.66GHz for $1,469, ($530 Savings, Refurb) is a post by Xavier Lanier from Notebooks.com.

Adobe CS5 is now shipping to customers, and if you haven’t already ordered an upgrade to the popular suite of design tools, you can download a free 30 day trial of CS5 right now. As an added bonus, free shipping has been extended through May 31, 2010 when you buy Adobe CS5 suites or Photoshop software — including student and teacher editions.

Adobe CS5 includes many amazing new tools and features for photographers, web designers, video producers and other creative professionals. You can see a complete listing of the new features in Adobe Creative Suite 5, with video, broken down in our closer look at Adobe CS5. You can see one of the new features in the video below.

If you’re creative fire has been sparked you don’t have to wait, you can start a free 30-day trial of Adobe CS5 suites and software. Currently you can download a free trial of the following Adobe Creative Suite tools.

• Adobe CS5 Design Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator CS5
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
• Adobe Flash Professional CS5
• Adobe Premier Pro CS5
• Adobe After Effects CS5
• Adobe InDesign CS5
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 – Get $100 off today May 7 only!
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

To get free shipping on Adobe CS5 packages and programs use coupon code ‘adobecs5‘, and visit the page from one of the following links.

Adobe CS5 Packages

• Adobe Design Premium CS5 Upgrade from $599 Full From $1,899
• Adobe Web Premium CS5 Upgrade from $599 Full From $1,799
• Adobe Production Premium CS5 Upgrade from $599 Full From $1,699
• Adobe Master Collection CS5 Upgrade from $899 Full From $2,599
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Student and Teacher Editions up to 80% off

In addition to the current free shipping offer on Adobe CS5 with coupon code ‘adobecs5‘,

Adobe CS5 Now Shipping – Free Trials Available, Free Shipping Coupon is a post by Josh Smith from Notebooks.com.

Lenovo is offering $100 off the ThinkPad SL510 with e-coupon code ‘USPSL510A3‘.  The Lenovo SL510 ThinkPad comes with a configurable Intel processor, Windows 7 Home Premium (Professional upgrade available), classic metal black cover, 15.6 inch HD display, 320GB hard disk, 2.0 MP integrated web-cam, high-definition audio and HDMI port. This $100 off coupon code is only valid on a ThinkPad SL510 customized at $799 or more.

This thinner and lighter Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 is good for daily work at home or the office including web-surfing, video chat, email, multimedia presentations, off-site video conferencing, traveling and more.

Please note that this e-coupon is valid from 4/15/2010 to 4/21/2010 and limited to first 1000 quantities. Lenovo SL510 notebook comes with 5 pre-configured models which start at $499, $629, $729, $724 and $984 or can be customized to your liking.

Please visit Lenovo.com to know more about the SL510 or to order online.

Lenovo SL510 specifications:

Deal: $100 off the Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 is a post by Rajesh from Notebooks.com.

This week Adobe released the latest version of its premium creative software Creative Suite 5, or as it is commonly known CS5. This new software package brings about many cool new tools and features that should have professional graphic designers, photographers and hobbyists excited.

The new features of Adobe Creative Suite 5 are already impressing the pro’s that use this software on a daily basis and Adobe gave a small group a sneak peak at some of the really cool features in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and After Effects; recorded their reactions and put it together in this short clip below that highlights new features and how excited it has the community.

Now that you’ve seen the user reactions and a few of the cool things that Adobe Photoshop can do to save you time and make your life easier we want to highlight a few other new features that will help users in Photography, Video Production and Web Design; as well as how some of these features come together to create a really cool product.

Photography:

Possibly the most mind blowing feature I have seen in the new Adobe CS5 release is the ability to remove an object or a person from an image and automatically fill in the background behind them. In the demonstration, which you can see below, the act of removing an object from a photo is transformed from a time consuming process into a simple select and click model. You can see the Content Aware ability at the 4:25 mark in the following video which includes several other great tools in CS5 for photographers.

Before you go decrying that Adobe has made graphic designers obsolete, take note that while this feature works like Magic on a simple background; it does have its limitations which CNet Asia confirmed with Adobe.

“We checked with Adobe regarding Content-Aware Fill’s restrictions, and found out that it works best if the background is uncluttered. For complex scenes, the firm suggests that users remove the elements by components. For example, if you’re removing a dog from a busy street scene, you should remove the head first, followed by the body, limbs and tail. This ensures the software can accurately fill in the blank spaces.” Leonard Goh CNet Asia

Content Aware limitations aside it is a cool tool and the addition of several new or enhanced features really adds to the usefulness of CS5.

• Enhanced HDR handling for deleting a blurred area.
• Lens correction based on the type of Lens used.
• Paint a photograph from scratch and now mix colors with a special “mixer brush tool”.
• Easily snap Dashed Lines to corners in Adobe Illustrator.
• See animations and videos directly within Adobe InDesign 5.

Another cool tool for Adobe CS5 users is the Puppet Warp tool. This new feature lets you set points of articulation on an image and rotate and move it in a natural way to change positions. It’s a bit like moving the arms around on a GI Joe. If my description still leaves you a little confused check out the demo of Puppet Warp below.

Video Production:

In addition to these features, when it comes to production, Adobe After effects is now a full 64-bit application and can make use of the full amount  of RAM on your system and rotoscoping is now easier.

You can see a selection of the top 5 Creative Suite 5 features for video production in the video below.

Web Design:

If you use Adobe CS for web design, you’ll really appreciate the new tools and features that make your work easier and more efficient. When you’re using Adobe Flash Professional CS5, now you can link textboxes together and text will flow from one box to another.

In Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, there’s no more leaving the application to use a third party tool to see what your creation looks like in other browsers thanks to BrowserLab. This new tool lets you see what your pages look like right inside DreamWeaver.

For closer look at the top 5 features for web design, check out the video below:

Adobe CS 5 was announced on April 12th and is currently available for pre-order to be shipped in mid-May and customers who pre-order by April 29th can get free shipping on Adobe CS5. There are several Adobe CS 5 packages, listed below, including a student and educator edition which is discounted by 80% off retail for individuals with educational credentials.

Adobe CS5 Packages

• Adobe Design Premium CS5 – Upgrade from $599 Full From $1,899
• Adobe Web Premium CS5 – Upgrade from $599 Full From $1,799
• Adobe Production Premium CS5 – Upgrade from $599 Full From $1,699
• Adobe Master Collection CS5 – Upgrade from $899 Full From $2,599
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Student and Teacher Editions – up to 80% off

In addition to the current free shipping offer on Adobe CS5 with coupon code ‘adobecs5‘, if you purchase Lightroom 2 with a CS5 package or update you can save 30% off!

A Closer Look at Adobe CS5 is a post by Josh Smith from Notebooks.com.

HPDirect is offering up to $555 off the HP Pavilion dv6t quad edition series customizable notebook. The  savings of $555 includes an instant discount of $150 and several other configuration savings.

Savings include:

• FREE Blu-Ray drive ($200 savings)
• FREE double memory upgrade from 2GB to 4GB ($80 savings)
• Save $100 off 8GB memory upgrade from 6GB
• 50% off 500GB hard drive upgrade ($25 value)

This notebook comes with a powerful Intel core i7 processor, 15.6” diagonal HD display, Windows 7 Home Premium, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB hard drive and Nvidia GeForce GT 320M graphics with 1GB of memory. It also comes with an HDMI port so you can easily enjoy movies and photos on your TV by connecting a single cable between TV and your notebook.

Please note that this promotion on HPDirect is valid from 04/08/2010 to 04/10/2010. To get this deal please visit HPDirect.com. The basic configuration of the HP Pavilion dv6t quad edition starts at $949.99, recommend configuration starts with $1387.98 and quick-ship model (ready to ship, not configurable) comes in $1,019.99.

This HP Pavilion dv6t quad edition notebook is good for multitasking as well as editing high-definition video and photos, watching high-def movies, web surfing, presentation, editing office documents, chatting, email and more.

HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition Specification:

Save up to $555 on the HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition Notebook is a post by Rajesh from Notebooks.com.

You can save upto $500 on the purchase of customized HP Pavilion dv8t quad core notebook with the current promotion going on HPDirect.com. This $500 instant saving on HP Pavilion dv8t quad edition is available thanks to a $300 coupon code ‘NBZM88832‘ and a $200 instant rebate.

This notebook comes with a powerful Intel core i7 processor, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive, Nvidia GeForce GT 230M graphic processor and 18.4” diagonal HD display.  This entertainment notebook from HP is well-suited for everything from entertainment applications to high-def video editing, photo editing, web surfing, watching movies and playing video games.

Please note that this laptop is little bit on heavy side and should be considered a desktop replacement. It’s not suitable for carrying along with you whole day. If you are looking for portable and powerful laptop from HP then you might want to look into HP dv4t series notebook.

Also note that this offer is limited to first 400 coupons redeemed and $200 instant rebated is only available on HP Pavilion dv8t Quad notebooks configured at $1,399 or greater.  1 redemption per person or address. Not valid with other promotions, HP Academy, or HP Friends & Family.

The price for this notebook starts at $1199.99 for the basic configuration, $1707.98 for the recommended configuration.  Please visit HPDirect.com to get this deal.

HP Pavilion dv8t Quad Edition Series Specification:

Deal: Save $500 Instantly on the HP Pavilion dv8t Quad Edition Notebook is a post by Rajesh from Notebooks.com.

Incipio is easily one of the best case-makers on the market. They offer a wide variety of stylish  products to protect your mobile devices from harm. Incipio’s site is running a special holiday promotion for all their white colored items, offering a 50% discount if you enter the coupon code SNOWDAY before checking out!

This can be a great opportunity to save on a present to an iPhone owner or power user. For example, you buy this snazzy feather iPhone case for $10.00! If you choose economy shipping, there’s no extra charge. You can also snag an additional $5.00 discount of your total purchase, provided it’s more than $30, if you pay using Google Checkout!

50% Off Incipio White Colored Items is a post by Bogdan Semida from Notebooks.com.

HP’s offering up to $400 off customizable Pavilion notebooks configured to $1,299 or more. HP is offering either $100 or $200 instant rebates on most of its consumer notebooks. You can get an additional $200 off if you configure your notebook PC to at least $1,299 at HPDirect.com before rebates and enter coupon code NBTY349821 at checkout.

This means you can get a very-well configured notebook for as low as $899. The coupon cannot be used on HP Mini, ENVY or Compaq-branded notebooks. We suggest using this opportunity to add more memory to your notebook, add a larger hard drive or go for more powerful graphics.

This coupon can be redeemed on HP’s most popular notebooks, including the HP Pavilion dv4, dv6, tx2z, dv7 and dv8.

To get started visit HPDirect.com and configure your notebook to at least $1,299 before discounts. Pay attention to the dollar amount at the top-right of the configuration page, and not the final price, which includes either the $100 or $200 rebate depending on which model you choose. At checkout you’ll see an area to enter your coupon. After you enter coupon code NBTY349821 you’ll see your final price.

This coupon is limited to 2,250 uses so if you don’t see the discount this coupon is expired.

HP Coupon: $200 off Notebooks + $100 to $200 Instant Rebates is a post by Xavier Lanier from Notebooks.com.