A monitor or two so you can see whats going on :).A Mac mini late 2012 with OSX in a perfect state (if not you can reinstall OSX to start with, I did that).
Installing Ubuntu/Linux Mint on Macmini is easy, but getting it to work the way you normally want a PC to run is a bit difficult (meaning, run smoothly and making all peripherals work) :) I am trying to cover all the issues I had with linux installation process and getting Apple hardware t o run happily with Linux.