yeah the idea of a mac mini did appeal to me, all up this process has cost me a couple of days and $30 for an official Apple Snow Leopard disc. If the costs to get this done go over $300 then I'll probably get a mini.
I've got it dualbooting and working so far on the standard VESA driver. its a little laggy though, hence the desire to get some hardware acceleration instead of relying on the CPU to calculate the framebuffer.
boot loader? not sure. Think it's kalyway?