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It doesn't say on Toshiba's site what the memory config is, whether its 1 x 2GB or 2 x 1GB.
The easiest way to find this out without opening the thing up is using a little thing called WMI, now this sounds harder than it is, but I use this all the time to find out memory configs without having to open laptops up.
Open a command prompt as administrator and type 'wmic' the prompt should change to something lie 'wmic:root\cli>' then type 'memorychip' and hit enter, it should tell you what chips you have in what slots and how many slots you have
you can have a look at this link for more details http://www.walkernews.net/2009/11/21/use-wmi-to-find-out-ram-slot-in-used-and-memory-size-of-each-slot/
Once you know what you have onboard you can buy accordingly, make sure you get 1066Mhz speed DDR3 ram and you should be good to go. From what I can see 4GB is the max your machine will take, which is limited by the motherboard. So you'll want to get 2 x 2GB sticks to put in there.
I usually buy my memory from Crucial, it's cheap and reliable.
Here's an useful page for your laptop
http://www.crucial.com/uk/upgrade/Toshiba-memory/Satellite+L500+Series/Satellite+L500-1XL-upgrades.html
Hope that helps.