I’m not a quitter. I’ll keep working
That’s the spirit @williamatics! With determination you can definitely make this happen.
If high poly sculpting is a bottleneck for your laptop, then you can forget sculpting all together. If you apply the same workflow from the Treasure Chest course,which didn’t include sculpting, the file will be far less resource-intensive. It’s all lo-poly modeling, map-baking, and texture painting. The crate is a perfect subject to apply what’s taught there.
How does that sound?