I’ll be honest, I don’t even do mid towers, so I can’t really offer anything for minis. It’s full of go home for me. Mid towers don’t have the width to fit the best CPU air coolers and I’m too cheap for liquid. I also like to have room to work in there. Just easier all around to deal with unless you are really cramped for space and or planning on moving the PC frequently. Minis really boggle my mind. Everything so cramped in there. Makes me uncomfortable. Like computer claustrophobia. lol. Idk how the cooling is for them but I feel like water cooling would be almost a necessity and that’s going to eat cash. If budget is not a limiting factor I guess that’s not an problem though.