Splitting a Lightroom Catalog or hiding photos

I currently have >40,000 photos in my Lightroom catelog which goes back more than 10 years. I would like to use a second laptop to manage and edit selective photos starting from a certain time period, i.e 2015 and forward. From what I understand, it is not possible to hide folder in Lightroom 4.1 (not the classic version). If that is the case, is it possible to create two different catalogs of photos and only display one of those on the second laptop? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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