Hi Guys/girls,

So I recently bought a Dell U2410 monitor (Rev. A01) and am thinking about buying my second one to run both in Dual-screen setup on OSX.

But I have a question/problem while using Mac OSX: The colors are a bit different when using different programs. 
When I browse the web for example, everything looks more vibrant than the OSX UI and dock icons.

Example #1: Apple iTunes icon on their website looks more vibrant than the one in my dock.

Example #2: When I look at OSX screenshots/screen-grabs from different users on random forums, the red/orange/green buttons at the left
of each window, also look more vibrant.

Example #3: In iTunes, while in album art overview (not coverflow), when I look at the album cover art, the colors are a bit dull. When I enlarge the cover,
the colors are much more vibrant.

My monitor is currently set to the "AdobeRGB" profile and standard U2410 color profile provided by the system.

When I try sRGB mode, everything looks even more dull and a bit greenish.

I heard things about calibrating the monitor myself but I think the problem will remain. Because when I adjust the colors in custom mode, there still is the
difference between the OSX-system UI and colors when browsing the web.

I really don't know where to ask for this problem, hope someone can put me in the right direction.
Thanks already! 

[Edit:] Just thought of something weird: when OSX assigns the color profile to the monitor, the colors can never expand the color space of the profile, right?
Because in my case, I think the color space is being expanded everytime I browse the web or run/view things that don't fall under the OSX UI/Dock. Arghh..
I just don't get it. 

 

System: Mac mini late 2009, Snow Leopard 10.6.4. Currently using latest v. of Google Chrome. Tried different browsers.