Japanese products are also perceived to be superior for their reliability and for the quality of their dealer networks.

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The latter frequently took the form of superior durability and reliability.

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Leveraging an industry-leading feature-set, the Agility 4 SSD series offers superior endurance and reliability without the need for internal data compression (that typically leads to decreased performance of ubiquitous files types).

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Besides the much lower price, EnterpriseDB also offers customers superior performance, scalability, reliability and security.

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These vehicles stand out for their superior value, safety, reliability and fuel economy.

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The superior performance and high-reliability Spinpoint F4 is engineered for high-end computing in PCs, Macs, high-end workstations and server applications.

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On hardware, IBM essentially has a monopoly within mainframes which remains superior to x-86 servers in terms of reliability, utilization, security and throughput which will see an upgrade in 2013.

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