Personally I find a lot of "8-bit" low poly models to be cliche, especially if they copy a real world object. It doesn't help much that at this point it's an art style.
even installing windows 7 wasn't possible, well ubnless he wanted 8 and 7 running on the same machine, which is crazy considering the size of it's ssd :X
well this is silly but i didnt know it was possible to increase the polly limit. I pushed to 8 million max and so far i dont experience lag or crashes.